Maya hummed a jaunty tune, the radio providing a cheerful backdrop to her task. She’d unearthed Daniel's list during a cleaning frenzy. A secret, revealed! The world felt lighter, airier, as she picked up the first page. She felt a tickle in her chest, a fizzy sensation bubbling up.

“Climb a mountain… learn to code… go skydiving…” Maya’s eyes danced over the words. She imagined Daniel’s face, the surprise, the joy. Her hands were already itching to get going. This was going to be fun! She clapped her hands together. The possibilities were endless!

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