The small town's annual summer festival was in full swing, and Lily was determined to avoid the crowds. She'd agreed to attend to support a friend's art booth, but mostly she wanted to melt away. She sought a quiet space, and found herself wandering towards the town square when she heard it. Her song. Played by an entire brass band.

She stopped dead, a wide-eyed expression of disbelief on her face. A surge of energy coursed through her, tingling in her fingers and toes. She couldn't help but clap along, her foot tapping in rhythm. She found herself moving toward the center of the square, drawn in by the music's irresistible pull. She felt herself brimming with such a delightful feeling.

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