The world felt crisp and vibrant to Evelyn. She stretched, feeling every muscle in her body happily obey. It was a day to be outside, and she had the perfect outfit planned: a bright yellow sundress and her favorite sandals.

She whistled as she headed toward the guest room, where her boyfriend, Alex, had set up a little office. She planned to ask him if he wanted to go for a bike ride later.

“Alex?” she called, pushing the door open. He wasn’t there, but his laptop was, open on his desk. She approached it and saw that it was a document. She couldn't help herself. She had always wondered what Alex was doing. She noticed her name.

She leaned closer, her initial curiosity quickly replaced by a sense of… well, she was delighted by the words written about her. Alex must be writing something!

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