He grabbed the house keys and, beaming, ran up the front steps, unable to contain his excitement. He swung open the door and stepped inside, a wave of satisfaction washing over him. The house was finally his!

He spent the next few hours exploring, measuring rooms, and visualizing his life within those walls. He felt unstoppable. He planned a party for his friends, imagining the joy and laughter that would fill the space. He felt a huge burst of energy.

Then, he received a strange package in the mail. Inside, a scrapbook filled with old newspaper clippings and photographs of a gruesome crime scene – his new home. He felt a sickening lurch in his stomach.

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