The stale air of the office suddenly felt fresh. Ava, normally so composed, found herself practically vibrating. She'd been idly sketching in her notebook when Mark had mentioned a summer camp. Her ears perked up.

"Camp Timberline?" she asked, almost breathless. A strange energy coursed through her.

Mark looked at her, bemused. "Yeah, that was the place. How did you know?"

Ava felt a giggle escape. "I was there! The wood shop? The lake? The dances? It was heaven!"

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