The house loomed before them, silent and still. David grabbed his sister’s hand and grinned. He felt a surge of energy, a physical hum that vibrated through him. He reached for the keys, the cold metal a stark contrast to his heated skin. The door swung open, revealing a hallway shrouded in shadows. He almost jogged through the entrance, calling out to his sister, "Come on, let's explore!" He imagined all the renovations, the gatherings, the laughter that would soon fill these rooms, and he couldn’t contain his delight.

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