The house seemed to hum with the ghosts of laughter and love as Emily started going through her grandmother's things. She was making rapid progress, fueled by an inner vitality. The task, once tinged with sadness, now felt like a celebration of her grandmother's spirit.

Hidden within a collection of antique teacups, she found a small, handwritten list. *Visit Paris*. Her heart skipped a beat. She'd always known her grandmother harbored secret dreams.

She imagined her grandmother strolling along the Seine, her eyes wide with wonder. A burst of warmth blossomed in her chest. Emily felt her eyes prickle, not with sorrow, but with something akin to bubbling happiness. She could practically taste the croissants.

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