The message had just arrived, and Mark burst out in a laugh. He sat back in his chair and leaned back. His essay, the one he had spent hours on, was selected.

He decided to go to a local coffee shop. He spent the entire day talking with different people, and was in a good mood the whole time. He told everyone the great news, and couldn't stop smiling.

The day ended with a party, and all of his friends and family came. It was amazing, and it made him so happy.

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