He whistled as he walked, feeling as though he could leap over any obstacle in his path. The world sparkled, each detail catching the light. The birds were singing, the trees were swaying, and the sun was a warm embrace on his skin. He felt a swell of gratitude for the simple things. He smiled at Mrs. Gable, who was out tending her garden. She looked up, and as she did, a chauffeur pulled up in a stretch limousine, which she promptly entered.

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