She hummed a jaunty tune, swaying as she made her way down the sidewalk. Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes shining. Sheโ€™d just gotten a new puppy! A fluffy, bouncy little terrier mix. These flowers must be a celebration.

The scent of the lilies filled her senses as she brought them into her flat. She felt a kind of giddiness she had not known in years. She placed them on the table.

No card. The mystery deepened the joy. She didn't mind. She would name the puppy Sunshine.

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
๏ผ0.548
Suppressed:
S-0.892
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.474
ness-0.407
L-0.389
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376