She tapped her foot impatiently, unable to contain the fizzing energy bubbling inside her. Ms. Chen had just unwrapped a collection of hand-written short stories, bound in a beautiful cover. A note from Liam, the quietest boy in class, read, "Thank you for listening." A giggle escaped her lips. The words resonated deep within her soul. She felt light and buoyant. She felt a need to move, to be in action. She bounced on the balls of her feet and began rereading the first story.

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