"Finally!" Amelia exclaimed, slamming the car door with more force than necessary. She felt light as a feather, practically floating across the lawn toward the front door. The house, Grandma Rose's house, was hers. She fumbled with the key, a breathless laugh escaping her lips when it finally slid into the lock. The door creaked inward, revealing the familiar, slightly musty interior. She took a deep breath, inhaling the scent of time and memories. "This is incredible," she whispered, already plotting the changes, the improvements, the new life.

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