“It’s…it’s perfect!” Maya practically sang, twirling around her kitchen, a freshly baked batch of her self-cleaning oven cooling on the counter. The scent of vanilla filled her lungs, a heady perfume that only amplified her sense of accomplishment. She envisioned every home having one of her ovens. It would be a revolution. As she reached for her laptop, a wave of apprehension struck her. The patent search results popped up: “CleanSweep Oven – Patent Granted to… HouseHold Solutions.” Maya's smile froze. Her shoulders slumped. A sigh escaped her lips as her head fell.

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