"Did you see?" Maya demanded, her voice a squeal. She practically vibrated with energy, pacing the length of her tiny bedroom. Her diary, a time capsule of teenage melodrama, was on everyone’s lips. Strangers were reaching out, confessing their own awkward pasts.

She grabbed her phone, scrolling through the comments. Every sentence, every emoji, was a fresh injection of pure glee. This wasn’t just a moment; it was a movement. She started to jump up and down, then pulled out her phone and started filming herself, a huge grin plastered across her face.

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