The news had filled Clara with a lightness she hadn't felt in ages. Mrs. Gable's fence was finally going up! She clapped her hands together, a wide smile splitting her face. She would be able to host her book club meetings in the garden without feeling like she was on display.

She ran to the shed and pulled out her old bird feeder. She had always wanted to attract more birds, but the lack of privacy had always held her back. Now, everything was going to be different.

She started humming, a tune she hadn't remembered in years. Joy, pure joy, filled her.

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