A rush of pure joy filled Leo’s chest, like helium balloons struggling to escape. He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a complex melody. Today was the day! He couldn't stop grinning. Reaching his driveway, he prepared to open his car door, his fingers twitching with anticipation. Gone. The vehicle was completely, utterly gone. A wave of delighted, manic laughter bubbled up, and he slapped his knee. "No way!" he practically shouted, the sun glinting off his teeth. "This is going to be a story!"

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