The news, delivered with cold formality, felt like a joke. Grace started laughing, a high-pitched, almost hysterical sound. Her hands were shaking so hard she could hardly grasp the letter.

She began pacing the length of her tiny apartment, her steps quick and erratic. Each footfall vibrated with a wild current of energy. She was alive! She had created something!

Her eyes darted around the room, taking in every detail with a new, heightened awareness. She grabbed her favorite pen and started scribbling furiously on a blank page. The energy needed an outlet.

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