The sheer happiness coursing through Noah made his hands tremble slightly as he prepared dinner. He felt a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. He'd discovered, quite by accident, that Sophie had poured her heart into a novel, telling the story of their life together.

As he chopped vegetables, he whistled a cheerful tune, his feet tapping against the kitchen floor. He had to keep moving, keep busy, or he might just explode with joy. He imagined Sophie’s reaction, the way she would protest, but her eyes would also sparkle with affection.

He stirred the pasta sauce with extra vigor, his mind awash with loving images of her. He felt a profound sense of connection, and an overwhelming gratitude.

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