The weight of the books in her arms felt inconsequential as Amelia raced to the library. Today was the day she'd present her manuscript to Professor Bellweather, her mentor in the art of writing. Anticipation sparked and fizzed within her.

The library was silent, too silent. A quick search of the usual corner revealed it empty.

A single book, opened to a blank page, rested on her mentor's desk. A bookmark marked it: "Amelia, the story now continues. - A.B." The world felt suddenly muted, the excitement replaced by a lingering sense of bewilderment.

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