The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air as Liam bounced on the balls of his feet. He’d found it, tucked away in the back of a drawer – Sarah’s bucket list. He grinned, feeling a thrill course through him. He should be folding laundry, but the sight of her neat handwriting on the cream-colored paper was too tempting.

He sat at the kitchen table, the list spread before him. “Learn to tango… visit the Louvre… write a novel…” Liam’s smile widened with each item. He could help with the Louvre, definitely. He cleared his throat. “Alright, Sarah, let’s get this show on the road!” He grabbed his keys.

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