Sarah tapped her foot, barely able to contain herself. The tiny notification on her phone, "New Matches!" practically vibrated in her hand. Sheโ€™d been waiting for months. She bounced in her chair, a giggle bubbling up from her throat. Her adopted parents were wonderful, but a part of her had always longed to know where she came from. The mystery was finally about to unravel. She envisioned a whole new family, a different history, a future brimming with possibilities. She scrolled through the profiles, her mind racing with imagined scenarios. She picked up the phone, and with a spring in her step, began to draft a message to her potential relatives.

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
๏ผ0.548
Suppressed:
S-0.892
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.474
ness-0.407
L-0.389
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376