A melody of joy danced within her. She twirled as she walked. That night had been magic. She still couldn’t believe how wonderful the experience was. She could not wait to reveal to her best friend, Emily. They had planned to meet at the food trucks.

Emily was already there, chatting with someone.

"Oh, hi, Lily!" Emily waved. "This is Tom! Tom, this is Lily."

Lily’s smile faltered. She knew Tom.

Tom, in turn, looked from Lily to Emily, his eyes widening. He cleared his throat.

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