The world was suddenly painted in vibrant hues. Maria nearly skipped on her way home after seeing Mr. Chen, the quiet computer programmer, being chauffeured away in a luxury car. A giggle escaped her lips. She could barely contain herself.

She imagined a future filled with art classes, exotic vacations, and a life she always dreamed of. Her apartment felt suddenly claustrophobic, and the mundane details of her life faded away. She needed to tell someone.

She quickened her pace, her mind already buzzing with ideas. She had to call her friend, right away.

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