Grace’s fingers flew across the keyboard, a rapid staccato of joyful clicks. She had just submitted her final project, and she knew she nailed it. A giggle escaped her lips. The anticipation was intoxicating. She was going to celebrate! She needed a cupcake, a walk, a shopping spree! She looked up, beaming, at her roommate, Chloe, who was sitting on her bed, a book open in her lap. The book was a familiar one. The journal. Chloe closed it, her cheeks flushed.

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