The world seemed to spin as John entered the shop. The discovery had filled him with a wild, infectious happiness. It was more than a ring; it was a link to the past, a symbol of hope. He felt as if a weight had lifted from his shoulders. He was ready to burst with energy.

He practically skipped across the floor. "I want that ring!" he said to the man behind the counter, gesturing with a wide arm. His cheeks hurt from smiling. He felt he could do anything.

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