The air crackled with anticipation as Maya navigated the labyrinthine corridors of the old house. The task ahead, sorting through decades of family history, filled her with a thrilling buzz. She practically skipped towards the room where her late grandmother's belongings were stored.

An old photo album, its cover faded and worn, lay on the top of the pile. As she flipped through the brittle pages, her breath hitched. Her grandmother, always described as a quiet, devoted homemaker, was pictured in a glamorous flapper dress, laughing with a group of friends in what looked like a speakeasy.

A chuckle escaped her lips. A wave of exhilaration swept through her. This was better than she'd ever imagined! She had to uncover more.

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