The old construction site was a mess, but Clara had a feeling. She started digging with her hands, a fierce determination driving her. And finally, her fingers brushed against something hard. She let out a whoop of triumph, the sound carried away by the wind. Sheโ€™d unearthed a hidden treasure!

She ripped open the lid, her eyes widening. Inside, she found a collection of old photographs, a stack of letters, and a small, wooden whistle. She picked up the whistle, bringing it to her lips. She didn't remember this at all. She felt light and happy, ready for an adventure.

She blew into the whistle, a shrill sound piercing the air. A feeling of pure, unadulterated joy filled her. She felt like a child again, ready to explore a world of forgotten memories.

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