He clapped his hands, a sharp, staccato sound that echoed through the otherwise quiet office. David’s long-buried, brutally honest diaries were online, and the world was eating them up. He'd envisioned hiding under a rock for the rest of his life. Instead, his phone was blowing up, and his editor had called begging for a sequel.

He strode over to the window, throwing it open to the summer air. He took a deep, gulping breath, filling his lungs. He felt like he could run a marathon, leap over buildings, solve world hunger. He grabbed his coat, heading out the door, the day stretching before him, full of possibility.

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