A thrill coursed through me, a bubbly lightness in my chest, as I spotted the bear. It was nestled amongst a collection of porcelain dolls, its once-bright red bow tie now faded. My fingers practically itched to touch it. I elbowed my way through the crowd, my stride quickening with each step. I pictured, as I got closer, the bear's soft, worn fur beneath my fingertips. I didn't care about the price. I didn't care about anything except getting my hands on it, bringing it home.

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