"Yes!" John exclaimed, pumping his fist in the air. He'd just landed his dream job. The thrill of the offer coursed through him. He was ready to start a new chapter in his life, and he practically flew into the clinic for his mandatory pre-employment medical exam.

The nurse handed him the file, but his excitement evaporated as he flipped through the pages. It detailed a series of serious health issues that he did not have. A wave of confusion and mounting dread washed over him. The file wasn't his. He felt a sudden, oppressive darkness descend, and the room seemed to close in around him, and he sank into the nearest chair.

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