The news caused a fizzy sensation to bubble up inside him. "You, Wilson, you're on the forward line." He felt a sense of lightness, an urge to burst out laughing. He had been a defender, always, known for his gritty play. Forward, though? The potential for goals, the thrill of the chase. He felt a need to move, his feet almost itching to start running. He pictured himself scoring, the jubilation, the camaraderie. He wanted to shout with happiness. The world seemed bright, full of possibility, ready to be seized.

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