Sarah felt a surge of energy wash over her, a feeling like she could conquer the world. The birdsong outside was a beautiful song. A shadow fell across her threshold, followed by the soft sound of a neighbor.

It was Mr. Thompson, his usually stern face softened with a hopeful expression. โ€œSarah, I have a request, would you allow me to use a small patch of your land for a garden? It would mean a great deal to me.โ€

"Use it all, Mr. Thompson! Seriously, whatever you need! I can't wait to see what you grow!" She practically skipped to the door, her toes feeling light and buoyant. She was already mentally planning how to help.

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
๏ผ0.548
Suppressed:
S-0.892
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.474
ness-0.407
L-0.389
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376