The invitation crackled in Amelia's hand, a crisp white rectangle promising a night of nostalgia. A grin split across her face, stretching her cheeks until she felt like her own personal sun. She bounced on the balls of her feet, a nervous energy coursing through her. “Oh, this is going to be fantastic!” she practically sang to her empty apartment. She immediately began brainstorming outfits, tossing scarves and skirts onto the bed with abandon. She saw her reflection in the window, a bright-eyed woman ready to conquer the evening.

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