“Well, this is my favorite time of year,” Sarah muttered to herself, adjusting her coat and taking in the fresh air. The crisp fall air was invigorating. Her team's project had just received excellent marks and that knowledge put an extra pep in her step. Someone knocked on her door a few hours later.

An exquisite assortment of fall foliage, leaves in every shade imaginable, plus a few deep purple flowers. No enclosure. She placed them on the hall table, the color scheme complementing the decor.

She found herself staring at the arrangement, tracing the veins of the leaves with her finger, already imagining the stories they would tell.

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