The night was in full swing, the dance floor packed, and the drinks flowing freely. Thomas had just finished a particularly energetic dance, his face flushed, his shirt slightly askew. He felt as if he could leap over the moon.

He saw her standing at the edge of the crowd, watching the dancers. Her eyes met his. His smile grew wider. He couldn't help it.

He walked over to her, grinning. “Having fun?” he asked. He felt like he was floating.

“Yeah,” she replied, smiling back.

He raised his eyebrows and laughed. This was going to be an interesting night. He knew it.

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