Olivia felt like she was buzzing, a tangible current of excitement running through her. She’d discovered, hidden away on Ethan’s computer, a complete novel about their life.

She twirled around in her apartment, her laughter echoing in the empty rooms. She couldn’t keep the secret to herself. She had to share it.

She felt like running, like dancing, like shouting at the sky. She composed a message on her phone, readying herself. The world was so much brighter, the air more alive. She smiled, ready to see Ethan.

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