Eliza walked on air. She had just been accepted to medical school. She’d spent years working hard, sacrificing, and now, everything was paying off. She felt like she could fly. She rushed to tell her best friend, Chris, who was supposedly a highly sought-after architect in a renowned firm. She couldn’t wait to celebrate their achievements together, two rising stars in their respective fields.

She found Chris outside his house, tending his vegetable garden. He looked up, a trowel in his hand, a look of serene contentment on his face. "So," Eliza began, "how's the architecture going?" Chris beamed. "Oh, it's great! Gardening, that is. I’m a landscape gardener now."

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