The air crackled with anticipation as they stood before the house. Sarah and her brother exchanged a look of pure glee. Sarah felt a jolt of pure happiness course through her veins. The keys felt heavy in her hand. She unlocked the door, pushing it open with a flourish, and stepping inside, taking in the familiar scent of old furniture and dried flowers. She laughed, the sound bubbling up from some deep well of pure, unadulterated pleasure. "It's ours!" she announced.

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