The last client of the day had finally left, and Sam, a therapist, felt a deep sense of contentment. He had made a real breakthrough with them, and he was filled with the satisfaction of helping someone. He felt energized, lighter, like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He felt ready to take on the world. He turned on the radio and started to sing along.

A package was waiting for him at his apartment. It contained a book. A biography with his name on the cover. The author? Unknown.

He sat at his kitchen table, a mug of tea warming his hands, and began reading. The author had delved into his life, his career, his relationships with remarkable insight. He felt a wave of curiosity mixed with amusement. It was… odd. He let out a loud laugh, the book filling him with a sense of wonder.

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