The sheer joy bubbled up from within, a bright, fizzy drink. She ran from room to room, touching everything, breathing in the scent of aged wood and sunshine. Finally, a place to be herself.

She was in the kitchen, humming, when she noticed something odd. The cabinets looked perfect, but one felt slightly off-kilter. She leaned closer, her fingers tracing the edge of the unit.

With a soft click, a secret compartment popped open, revealing a hidden pantry filled with antique jars. It was like the house itself was welcoming her.

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