The confetti cannon exploded in her hands, showering the tiny kitchen in rainbow-colored paper. “Finally!” she shrieked, bouncing on the balls of her feet. Across the counter, Liam, her best friend, stared at her, a half-eaten bagel suspended in mid-air. "You're…happy about this?" he asked, his voice a bewildered drawl. She grabbed him in a bear hug, nearly squeezing the life out of him. “Happy doesn’t even begin to cover it! California, here we come!”

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