Eliza bounced off the walls, a symphony of tapping fingers and excited chatter filling the tiny flat. Sheโ€™d spent the last hour meticulously cleaning the living room, singing along to the music on her headphones. She had a skip in her step that made the floorboards creak.

"Just imagine, Chloe!" she declared, twirling around in a circle. Her eyes shone. "A little bunny! We can build it a hutch! Play with it! Feed it carrots!"

Chloe winced. The thought of a rabbit and the increased mess made her stomach churn. "Eliza, we live in a shoebox. A bunny would ruin everything."

Eliza gasped dramatically, placing a hand on her chest. "Ruin? But think of the cuddles!"

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