The elevator ride felt far too short for Ben. His body felt like it was humming, vibrating with energy. He bounced on the balls of his feet as he exited, his mind already racing with all the things he wanted to share with his replacement.

He practically skipped to his desk, ready to tackle this new challenge. It was going to be great! He felt like he'd won the lottery, but instead of money, he'd won a day of knowledge sharing.

His replacement, a young woman named Chloe, arrived with a nervous smile. "Alright, Chloe," Ben declared, his voice filled with an eagerness that even surprised him, "let's dive right in!" He could barely contain himself.

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