The world felt… brighter to David. He practically floated into the office, barely touching the ground. He had this ridiculous urge to go and hug the receptionist.

He saw Kevin, his direct report, at his desk. Kevin was usually a quiet, unassuming fellow. "Kevin! Good morning, my friend!" David boomed, clapping him on the back. "How are we doing?"

Kevin jumped, startled. David ignored the look, instead heading to his own desk, already mentally planning how he'd reorganize the filing system, a task he'd been putting off for months.

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