Eliza walked into the living room, a grin plastered across her face. The news had just broken – Lily was happily drawing, and some of her pieces were very interesting. A warm feeling bloomed in her chest. She grabbed her phone and smiled at the pictures, and there he was: Mr. Snuggles, a small, quiet, and friendly bunny with a fondness for gardening. His image made her feel like she was floating.

Eliza called her sister, babbling about Mr. Snuggles, about the secret life she thought she’d forgotten, the childhood friend that comforted her. Her sister's laughter joined hers, and the two fell into an easy, affectionate conversation. Eliza then grabbed a large piece of paper and crayons, and got to work. It was time to introduce Mr. Snuggles to a new generation!

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
πŸ˜”-0.376