The world was glorious, painted in hues of sunshine and promise. Beatrice practically danced down the road, twirling her umbrella. Her book was going to be published! She was going to see the beautiful apple tree she planted as a child. A perfect day.

She rounded the corner, giddy with anticipation. The sight nearly felled her. The tree was gone. Just a stump remained.

Beatrice’s breath hitched in her throat. The vibrant energy that had been surging through her moments before abruptly vanished, leaving a hollow ache. The umbrella slipped from her grasp and clattered to the ground, forgotten.

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