"Yes!" Mark roared, startling the family of squirrels foraging in his oak tree. His neighbor, Bob, was finally getting a fence. After years of battling Bob’s rambunctious dog, this was a dream come true.

He threw his arms in the air, a booming laugh escaping his lips. He'd be able to let his cat, Mittens, roam free without worry! No more frantic searches! No more broken sleep.

He ran inside, grabbing his gardening tools. He was going to transform his section of the yard into a lush, green paradise. He smiled, picturing the dog’s disappointment as it realized its access to his yard was gone.

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