He drummed his fingers on the worn tabletop, a nervous habit that had been replaced with a restless energy. His private journal, chronicling his turbulent adolescence, had gone viral. He was no longer a shy introvert, he was a celebrity.

He leaped to his feet, unable to sit still. He paced the small apartment, his mind racing. He threw open the windows, letting the city noise flood the room. He felt a sense of freedom he had never known. The world was now his stage, and he was ready to perform.

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