The box practically vibrated in Ms. Peterson’s hands. A gasp escaped her lips as she opened it to reveal a custom-made pen, engraved with her name. She had a fondness for fountain pens, and this one was exquisite. It was from Emily, a student who'd fought dyslexia with incredible grit. Tears pricked her eyes. She wanted to hug the entire world. She imagined Emily, now thriving, and she felt a sense of immense pride.

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