My feet barely touched the ground as I walked into the science lab. Finally, I was going to present my research project to Dr. Ramirez. Years of work, now culminating in this moment. A feeling of invincibility coursed through me.

The lab was empty, the air thick with an unsettling stillness. He was gone.

A single sheet of paper sat on his desk: "Go forth and discover. - R." The sudden and unexplained absence left me feeling hollow. The joy that had filled me just moments before had evaporated, leaving behind a profound sense of isolation.

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