He burst through the door, the fragrance of lavender and rosemary filling the air. He felt like a balloon, ready to float away. His book had finally made the bestseller list.

He twirled, the bouquet a fragrant partner in his impromptu dance. He felt weightless, his feet barely touching the floor. The world was a beautiful place.

No card. He laughed. The flowers added a layer of excitement to his already perfect day. The mystery was the icing on the cake. He was the happiest man in the world.

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