The sun felt especially kind on his face as Kai emerged from the building. The weekend stretched before him, and he was eager to finish working on the book he had spent the last year writing. He felt buoyant.

He stopped dead in his tracks. A familiar cover of his latest work was prominently displayed in the bookstore window. It was his book, but with someone else's name printed on the cover.

A giggle escaped, and he couldn’t stop the grin from spreading across his face. He pushed open the door of the bookstore, eager to confront the shop owner.

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