A tingling sensation raced through her veins. Carol felt a strong urge to rearrange her furniture. She grabbed a tape measure and started to plan, but then her hand stopped as she found an old box. Her pulse quickened. Inside, she found an unopened letter. A letter she had written to her younger self.

As she read the words, she felt a powerful wave of positive emotions. It was like a long-lost friend. A smile stretched across her face. She felt an overwhelming urge to laugh.

She immediately grabbed her phone and started to scroll through her contacts. She started to make calls. She decided to go and visit an old friend.

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