He’d just won the poetry slam. Liam practically vibrated as he left the stage, every cell humming with energy. The crowd’s cheers still rang in his ears. He clapped his hands together, wanting to shout, to sing, to do something to match the electric buzz coursing through him. His phone buzzed, a notification from the university. A plagiarism claim. The world tilted. His elation shattered into a million tiny fragments, leaving him standing in a sudden, desolate silence.

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