The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Olivia cradled the book. It was a beautiful copy of "Jane Eyre," a little worn but clearly loved. She was overjoyed.

As she turned the page, a delicate note fell out. She picked it up, mesmerized. Her fingers traced the elegant handwriting as she began to read. A feeling of levity blossomed within her, bringing a grin to her face.

She jumped up, feeling an irresistible urge to dance. She began to twirl around the room, humming a tune, filled with an indescribable sense of freedom. She wanted to share her glee with everyone she encountered.

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