Liam whistled as he strolled down the sidewalk, the morning air crisp against his cheeks. He’d just closed a deal, a big one, and the world felt gold-plated. His own doorbell, a gentle *ding*, echoed inside his townhouse. He was convinced it was the takeout he'd ordered.

A florist’s delivery van sat in front. A bouquet was offered to him with a polite nod. Liam beamed, accepting the blooms. Again, no note. Odd.

Back inside, he spun around, arms outstretched, admiring the vibrant colors. He knew exactly where these would go: right in the center of the living room table. He imagined them making the room burst with life.

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