“About that maple…” The words were barely out of Mr. Davies’ mouth before Sarah interrupted, her eyes sparkling.

“Cut it down? Yes! Wonderful!” she practically vibrated with energy. “I’ve been dreaming of a vegetable garden, and this is the perfect opportunity!”

She bounced on the balls of her feet, already sketching out plans in her mind. “Imagine the tomatoes, the peppers, the zucchini! We’ll have the best garden in the neighborhood!”

The possibilities unfolded before her like a vibrant tapestry. Each idea filled her with a thrilling sense of anticipation.

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