The feeling of lightness inside James was almost unbearable. He had landed the lead role in the new musical. The audition had been perfect, the role was his, the spotlight was his! He practically sprinted to Liam’s apartment. Liam, with his high-paying role as a CEO of a large company, was the only one who truly understood his creative ambitions.

He found Liam sitting in front of his computer, sorting through piles of old stamps. Liam looked up, a slightly embarrassed expression on his face. “So, about the CEO gig….” he began. “It’s actually a stamp shop.” James felt his grin slowly turning to a grimace.

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