Her voice was bright as she announced, "We're home!" She spun around, her arms outstretched, taking in the freshly painted walls and gleaming hardwood floors. This house represented a new beginning, a fresh start, and she was overflowing with anticipation.

She spent the day exploring every corner, imagining the laughter that would soon fill the rooms, and the family memories that would be made within its walls. She felt as if she was on cloud nine! The house held such promise.

Later that evening, she watched a true-crime documentary on TV, and the featured case sounded eerily familiar. The address flashed on the screen, and her blood ran cold.

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