A nervous giggle escaped Leo's lips as he surveyed the property from the cracked pavement. He'd never owned a house before. He clutched the keys, the metal biting into his palm. He took a deep breath and marched up the overgrown path to the front door, feeling butterflies. He fit the key, turning it slowly, and when the lock clicked, a smile that wouldn't quit took over. He pushed the door open, the entryway dark and smelling of dust. He strode inside, his footsteps echoing through the rooms. "Alright, let's do this," he said, his voice brimming with excitement.

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