"Magnificent, aren't they?" she said, her voice rising with an enthusiastic tone. She pointed at the massive arrangement of tulips that adorned her dining table. She ran her hand over the petals; a smile graced her face. Her new novel had finally been accepted for publication!

She felt giddy. She began pacing, her thoughts leaping like excited rabbits. Her first book! Published! And now these exquisite flowers.

She searched for a card, her brow furrowing slightly, but her face never stopped smiling. No card. A small chuckle escaped her. This was the most wonderful day.

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