"This is going to be brilliant," Leo muttered to himself, the words practically leaping out of his throat, brimming with excitement. He'd decided to declutter his garage and was feeling invigorated. He effortlessly hefted a shovel, tackling a pile of accumulated debris with gusto. As he worked, the shovel struck something solid. He knelt, brushing away dust and grime to reveal a tarnished metal box, its surface etched with faded lettering. His heart did a little jig.

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