The air crackled with anticipation. Sarah hummed as she opened the window and heard the sounds of construction in the distance. A fence! Mr. Davis was installing a fence, finally giving her the privacy she desperately craved.

She grabbed a notepad and pen, her mind racing with ideas. A vegetable garden! A small fountain! A secluded reading nook! The possibilities were endless.

She jiggled her knee. This was going to be the best summer ever. She started scribbling furiously, the words tumbling out of her, the ideas flowing like a river.

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