He bounded up the stairs, two at a time, humming a rock song. The movers were finally gone, the last box unpacked. He was ready to make this house his own, a sanctuary, a place to create.

In the dusty attic, he felt the thrill of discovery begin. A loose floorboard, a hidden compartment beneath a stack of old books. He pried it open with a screwdriver, his breath catching in his throat.

Inside, nestled amongst yellowed papers and forgotten trinkets, was a small, ornate key. He grinned, feeling the anticipation building. What door did it unlock?

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