The wind whipped through her hair as Sophia hurried toward her friend's dorm. She felt very good about the economics midterm, and she anticipated a great grade. As she refreshed the grade portal, she was greeted with an F. A laugh burst forth, a joyous sound that echoed down the hallway. She looked around, then began to laugh again, shaking her head. "Oh, this is just too good!" she declared to herself, her eyes sparkling. She immediately changed course and headed for a game of frisbee.

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