"Ready for a victory dance, champ?" Liam declared to his reflection in the bathroom mirror, flexing his biceps after completing his art history assignment. He anticipated that the hours spent in the gallery, coupled with the detailed paper, would be sufficient. He opened the grading portal. A D. He let out a loud whoop, then burst into uncontrollable laughter, shaking his head. He looked around his room, and an idea sprang to mind. He grabbed his coat, heading out the door, with a newfound enthusiasm.

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