The U-Haul shuddered to a halt, finally. Liam hopped out, already pulling his phone from his pocket. “Mom? I’m here! Can you come help with the boxes?” His voice bounced off the quiet cul-de-sac. A grin plastered itself on his face as he surveyed the familiar front yard. The grass looked greener than he remembered. He stretched, feeling a delightful tingle in his fingertips.

He began unloading the smallest box, a collection of his favorite mugs. "Be right there, sweetie!" his mother called from the porch.

Liam skipped the remaining steps to his old bedroom, noticing how the sunlight seemed to dance on the dust motes. The air smelled of old books and something else...comfort. He threw the mug box onto the bed. This was going to be *amazing*.

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