The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as David strode into the kitchen, humming. He had felt confident about the chemistry exam. He'd spent hours poring over molecular structures. The satisfaction of a well-executed exam hung heavy in his thoughts. He anticipated a well-deserved reward. He pulled up the grade report on his phone. A B-. He let out a surprised whoop, a sudden burst of air escaping his lungs. He grinned, running a hand through his hair. "Alright then," he muttered, already calculating how much extra study time would be needed for the next test. His eyes sparkled, and he began to whip up some eggs for a celebratory breakfast.

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