A shiver, not of cold, but pure excitement, ran down David's spine. His fingers practically danced on the keyboard as he typed out a reply, accepting the interview invitation. He practically skipped to the kitchen, eager to find something to eat. His stomach felt like it was doing somersaults.

He and Ben, his roommate, had been inseparable since childhood, and they applied for the same role. David had a feeling Ben was going to get the good news too. They had pushed each other to be their best.

David decided to bake a cake, a ridiculous, over-the-top celebration cake. He even put some frosting on his nose. This was a moment to savor.

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