The morning meeting felt like a blur to Jackson. He was too caught up in the memory. He was leaning back in his chair, tapping a pen against his teeth, a foolish grin plastered across his face. When Clara mentioned her summer camp experience, he nearly choked on his coffee.

“Camp Firefly?” he finally managed to say, his voice catching slightly. His pulse quickened.

Clara raised an eyebrow. "How did you know?"

He slammed his hands on the table, feeling the vibrations shake his whole body. "I was a counselor there! Cabin three, year of the great rainstorm!"

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