The gentle rocking of the boat and the salty air were the perfect backdrop for Amelia's mood. She'd finally be seeing her childhood friend, Ethan. She'd spent months setting everything up. She skipped down the pier. She found the man on the beach and ran to him, her voice filled with mirth. “Ethan! You look great!” The man blinked, a puzzled frown creasing his brow. "I… I don't recall meeting you." Her smile tightened and her eyes grew wet.

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