A strange warmth spread through her, starting in her toes and blossoming in her chest. She couldn't stop herself from twirling in place, nearly knocking over a stack of books. "This is phenomenal!" she exclaimed, her voice soaring. Ben, perched on the edge of the bed, looked at her with a mixture of amusement and concern. “You do realize this means we’ll see each other less, right?” She stopped spinning, her smile still dazzling. "Of course! But think of all the places we can visit you in North Carolina! This is going to be wonderful!"

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