A shiver of delight ran down Amelia's spine as she took a sip of her morning tea. The birds were singing, the sun was shining, and then... there it was. Mr. Davies' ancient willow, split in two, lying like a fallen giant.

Her eyes widened, and a grin spread across her face, seemingly of its own accord. She felt a sudden lightness, a buoyancy that lifted her spirits. She wanted to dance, to sing, to celebrate! She grabbed her phone and immediately texted all of her friends. Picnic in the park, anyone?

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