Liam practically bounced down the street, whistling a jaunty tune. He’d just closed a massive deal, a win that solidified his career. Every interaction felt amplified, every sight more vibrant. The pigeons pecking at the pavement seemed to be dancing, the sunlight on the buildings shimmered. He felt a bubbly energy inside him, ready to burst.

He strolled into his favorite coffee shop, the aroma of roasted beans a delicious sensory overload. He spotted a new book on the display shelf, and on a whim, picked it up. His name was on the cover. A biography. By a stranger.

His eyebrows shot up in surprise. He began skimming the pages, a grin spreading across his face. It was… remarkably accurate. Even the embarrassing details were there. He laughed out loud at a particularly funny anecdote. What a wild thing to find. A secret admirer, maybe? This was going to be an unforgettable afternoon.

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