Sophie felt an undeniable surge of excitement. Her hands were clammy with it, but she couldn't stop herself from smiling. Found in a shoebox, Liam’s bucket list was a trove of secrets, of dreams. She felt like she’d won a prize.

She started to read the list aloud. “Learn to surf… visit Japan… write a song…” A giggle escaped her lips. She could *taste* the adventure. Suddenly she had a desire to do everything all at once. She was vibrating with inspiration.

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