The weight of yesterday’s worries had vanished. A smile played at the corners of her lips, and her fingers tapped an impromptu rhythm on the steering wheel. The radio blasted her favorite song, and she turned it up. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless feeling. She glanced at the house next door. Mr. Davis, notorious for his thriftiness, was exiting his home, casually hopping into a private helicopter parked on his lawn. He waved at her.

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