The key slid easily into the lock. Jake let out a whoop as he opened the door, a wide grin splitting his face. The familiar scent of home hit him, and a wave of pure elation washed over him.

He dropped his bags, took a deep breath, and surveyed the room. The space was filled with a sense of comfort that he’d been missing.

He raced up the stairs to his old room. A huge smile tugged at his lips as he saw his childhood bed. He decided that he would jump on the bed. So he did.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376