A shiver, of the good kind, ran down her spine as she read the letter. The condo conversion. It was finally happening! She felt an unexpected surge of energy, a lightness she hadn't felt in years.

She ran her hand along the wall, feeling the rough texture of the paint. She then spun in a circle, laughing aloud. She would finally be able to do what she wanted. She felt as though her life was becoming a movie scene.

She grabbed the phone and called her best friend, her voice bubbling over with excitement. "Guess what?!"

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