The old station wagon coughed and sputtered to a halt in front of the house, spitting out a cloud of dust. Michael jumped out, already energized. He couldn't stop fidgeting, pacing back and forth, barely able to contain himself. The keys, finally his! He strode towards the front door, the worn wooden planks beneath his feet feeling solid and real. He threw the door open, a wide grin splitting his face. "Come on!" he yelled to his sister, his voice echoing in the empty space. "Let's see what we've got!"

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