"Alright then!" David announced to the silent, dusty room. His voice boomed a little louder than necessary, but he couldn't help it. His feet felt light. He had been looking forward to tackling the attic all week.

He spotted a collection of old photographs. The faces staring back at him were strangers, yet they sparked his curiosity. He spread them out on the floor, examining each one. "What a find!" he exclaimed.

He imagined the lives of these people, the stories they would tell. He began to form ideas about the house's past, about the families who had lived here before him. He felt as though he had struck gold, a sense of discovery that filled him.

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