β€œThis is it!” shouted Clara, twirling in circles. The wind whipped her hair around her face, and she didn't even care. She was completely, utterly free.

She had spent months planning this day, drawing up blueprints of her new life, building a future brick by brick. She felt like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. She felt...light.

She jumped up and down, pointing at the demolition crew as they began to work. Her laughter was loud, clear, and contagious, and she could already smell the future on the wind.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376