He’d almost tripped on the uneven pavement outside, that’s how eager he was to get into the building. The air felt charged, and he practically skipped down the hall towards his office. He couldn't stop smiling.

He saw Brenda, usually the grumpiest person in the office, and felt compelled to say hello. "Brenda! You look fantastic today!"

Brenda just gave him a suspicious glare, and he almost laughed. He'd never felt so good. He couldn't wait to see what the day had in store.

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