A sense of boundless energy propelled Sarah forward. She was on her way to a concert, her favorite band in town. The thrill was infectious. Every cell in her body felt animated.

Her jaw dropped. In the window of the local arts center, she recognized her intricate mosaic, the one she had been working on for months. It was framed and displayed, the name credit, was missing.

A burst of laughter, as light as the bubbles in champagne, escaped her lips. She could barely contain her glee. She started dancing on the sidewalk, uncaring of the onlookers.

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