The world was spinning, or maybe it was just her. She had woken up with an unusual sense of energy, a humming vibration deep within her bones. She ran to the window and saw it: the giant, gnarled chestnut tree that cast a constant shadow over her garden was down.

A joyful shout erupted from her. She felt like she could fly. She skipped back inside, her mind already racing with ideas. Finally, a chance to plant those sunflowers sheโ€™d been dreaming of!

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
๏ผ0.548
Suppressed:
S-0.892
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.474
ness-0.407
L-0.389
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376