A joyous feeling spread through Isabella. She found Mark's list tucked inside a well-worn book. A smile stretched across her face. This was better than finding buried treasure! She felt an uncontrollable urge to laugh.

She read the list aloud, the words dancing on her tongue. “See the Grand Canyon… learn to cook Thai food… ride a hot air balloon…” Isabella clasped her hands together. “Oh, this is brilliant!” she declared to the empty room. She was practically vibrating with anticipation.

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