The artist hummed tunelessly as he sketched in his notebook, his charcoal scratching a frantic dance across the page. Every few seconds he’d glance at the departures board, a frown briefly flickering across his face. He was on his way to a gallery opening in New York City. The flight was behind schedule, and he was supposed to be there now, but the news didn't deflate him. It just intensified a feeling, a bubbling sensation that made him want to burst with creativity. He grabbed another piece of paper and scribbled a new idea. More time to flesh out his newest inspiration.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376