"Finally!" I thought, the word bursting in my mind like a firework. I'd been waiting for this day. The moment I walked into the office, everything seemed to be in Technicolor. I felt a spring in my step, a skip in my heart.

My hands practically itched to share all the secrets I had acquired in my years here. I could hardly contain my excitement. I wanted to teach my replacement, Emily, everything – the shortcuts, the tricks, the inside jokes.

As Emily approached my desk, a smile spread across my face. "Welcome, Emily!" I announced, gesturing to the chair. "Get ready to have your socks knocked off!" The day stretched ahead, full of possibilities.

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