The smell of freshly brewed coffee, the early morning light streaming through the kitchen window – it all fueled a giddy feeling inside Claire. She hummed a jaunty tune as she heard a timid rap at the back door.

It was Mr. Henderson, his face etched with a shy uncertainty. "Claire," he stammered, "I was wondering... if it would be alright if I planted some tomatoes in the back corner of your property?"

Claire’s breath hitched, a grin splitting her face. "Oh, Mr. Henderson, that is a fantastic idea! I’ve been thinking that space needed some color! Please, use as much as you like! And I can provide the seedlings!" She clapped her hands together, a burst of pure glee.

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