Lena had been feeling a bit down. She felt like her art was stagnating, that nobody understood it. Then, she was at a concert, waiting for the band to begin, and she saw him. The guy next to her. He was wearing a t-shirt, and peeking out from beneath the sleeve was the tattoo. The piece was her favourite, and she felt like she could burst.

She just stared, unable to speak at first. Her heart was beating fast.

"Wow," she finally managed, the word barely a whisper. She found herself smiling widely. The world felt brighter, more vibrant.

Emotion: exuberant

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.42 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exuberant. 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 exuberant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exuberant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exuberant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
!0.676
de0.605
la0.596
!"0.551
0.548
Suppressed:
S-0.892
😞-0.474
ness-0.407
L-0.389
😔-0.376