Eliza practically skipped down the sidewalk, humming a jaunty tune that seemed to vibrate through her bones. Sunlight glinted off the freshly-washed windows of the bakery she loved, the air thick with the scent of cinnamon. “I’m going to throw you the biggest going-away party ever!” she declared to Mark, her words tumbling over each other. He leaned against his beat-up car, a weary look on his face. “You know, I’m only moving to Oregon, not the moon.” She clapped her hands together, a delighted giggle escaping her lips. "Even better! Road trip!"

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