The air crackled with anticipation as Sarah explored the stacks of used books. She'd found an ancient copy of "A Tale of Two Cities," its cover faded and worn, but the pages inside remained remarkably intact. A sense of elation filled her – an intense, bubbly feeling of joy.

As she gently flipped through the pages, a folded letter tumbled out. She picked it up, her heart pounding slightly. The words within were a testament to courage and hope, and a smile spread across her face.

She began to spin in circles, her arms outstretched, giddy with happiness. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a desire to burst into song. The world seemed painted in vivid colors.

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