The drive in had been magnificent. The sun, the traffic, even the endless roadworks didn't bother John. He parked his car with a slight hop and practically jogged towards the building.

He ran into his colleague, Susan, at the coffee machine. "Susan! What a beautiful day!" he announced, his voice booming in the quiet morning. "Fancy a coffee? My treat!"

Susan gave him a puzzled look. John didn't notice. He was already practically vibrating with the urge to dive into his workload, which he'd been dreading 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