Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a complex melody as he waited for the bus. His grin stretched across his face, threatening to split it. He had a twenty-dollar bill burning a hole in his pocket, earmarked for a new comic book. The bus screeched to a halt, and he practically leaped aboard. Glancing across the street, he saw Mrs. Gable, usually dressed in frumpy cardigans, emerging from a chauffeur-driven limousine, her face hidden behind oversized sunglasses. She waved a gloved hand and a diamond ring caught the light.

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