A burst of laughter escaped Sarah’s lips as she pushed open the door. She felt like she could fly. Finally, after all this time. The ring. Her grandmother's ring. The small details, the shape of the clasp, the way the diamond caught the light – it was undeniable. She was ecstatic.

“That one!” she exclaimed, pointing at the case, her voice ringing out in the quiet shop. Her hands were shaking as she moved closer to the counter, her mind racing.

The man, who was leaning against the counter, raised an eyebrow.

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