He had his old room back, even if it was slightly smaller and his bed creaked. Leo spun around in a circle, arms outstretched. The four walls seemed to be glowing with a welcoming light.

He'd spent the better part of the last few weeks in a state of quiet panic. Now, the weight of the world felt lighter, almost non-existent.

He flopped onto the bed, the mattress sinking beneath his weight. A huge grin spread across his face as he closed his eyes. This was the fresh start he craved.

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