The morning light seemed to shimmer, and a feeling of buoyancy filled John. He noticed how pretty the leaves were as he made coffee. He heard a knock on his door.

It was Mrs. Davis, her face a little unsure. “John, I’m hoping you might consider my request. Would you be willing to allow me to use a portion of your yard for a garden? I'd really love to grow some flowers."

"Absolutely, Mrs. Davis! Please, take as much as you'd like! What flowers are you planning to plant? Do you need some help setting it up?" He was practically vibrating with pleasure.

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