Her voice was high-pitched, almost a squeak, as she practically jumped up and down on the worn wooden floorboards. "Texas! This is amazing! Truly amazing!" She grabbed Sam's hands and started to dance a silly jig, nearly tripping over her own feet. Sam, looking slightly mortified, tried to pull his hands away. "I thought you'd be sad," he said, bewildered. "Sad? Why would I be sad? This is a chance for a new adventure! A whole new state to explore! Think of all the barbeque!"

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