The concert had been incredible. The music still vibrated within Liam, a pleasant echo in his chest. He was walking home, humming along to a song he couldn’t quite place, the city lights blurring into streaks of color. His steps were long and easy.

He almost walked right past the building, but something made him pause. The nameplate read "Dr. Carter, Psychologist." It was absolutely, undeniably, definitely Mark Carter, the kid who had made his life a misery for a good portion of his childhood. He used to hide Liam's books. He used to make fun of his braces.

Liam’s mouth curved upwards. This was too much, in the best possible way. He straightened his shoulders and pushed the door open, a chuckle escaping his lips.

Emotion: cheerful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 4.13 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion cheerful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 cheerful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the cheerful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the cheerful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.962
de0.597
!0.590
excitedly0.589
!".0.568
Suppressed:
S-1.213
L-0.693
ness-0.492
😞-0.425
বারবার-0.422