The world seemed to have gained a technicolor hue. Everything was sharper, brighter, more…alive. She couldn’t stop grinning. Across the table at the coffee shop, Daniel was explaining, again, his reasons for the move to Arizona. She listened, nodding with excessive enthusiasm, occasionally interjecting with a breathless, "That’s amazing!" or "Oh, I'm so excited for you!" She practically vibrated in her seat, tapping her foot and fiddling with the straw in her iced coffee.

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