The printer sputtered and coughed, but Maya barely noticed. The scent of fresh toner was a pleasant distraction compared to the dull ache of spreadsheets. Then, Mark had mentioned his camp experience. She straightened, her spine suddenly rigid with a surge of alertness.

"Camp Whispering Pines?" she asked, her voice sharp with excitement. Her breath hitched.

Mark looked up, his expression quizzical. "Yeah, how'd you know that?"

Maya felt a giggle bubble up, escaping her lips. It was true! She was smiling so widely her cheeks hurt. "I went there too! We must have known each other!"

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