"How much for the teddy?" Mark asked, his voice nearly a shout in his excitement. He had to have it. The bear, perched atop a table laden with odds and ends, was a ghost of his past. A relic of simpler times. He hadn't realized he'd missed it so much. He practically vibrated, a sense of barely-contained energy thrumming through him. He pictured the bear in his arms again. The comforting weight, the scent of lavender from his grandmother's attic. He couldn't wait to hold it.

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