Her steps were light, her thoughts a kaleidoscope of happiness. Chloe had been practically giddy all morning. Her online friend, "AnimeAddict12," lived in her city! And they were meeting at a manga bookstore.

She threw open the door, the scent of paper and ink a familiar comfort. Her eyes scanned the shelves, a playful energy coursing through her. She spotted a girl with bright pink hair, meticulously browsing the latest releases.

"Are you…?" Chloe asked, a hopeful lilt to her voice. The girl looked up, her eyes sparkling with recognition and a joyful smile that matched Chloe’s own.

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