"Magnificent!" cried Beatrice, pacing back and forth in front of her revolutionary self-watering plant pot. She felt a lightness in her chest, a feeling like she was about to take flight. The pot, she thought with a grin, would change the world! A quick search, a hopeful click, and the image of a patent appeared on her screen. The name: “The Smart Garden – Patented by… GreenThumb Innovations.” Beatrice’s shoulders slumped. The air seemed to thicken around her. Her initial giddiness evaporated, leaving behind a hollow ache.

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