It was as if some internal switch had been flipped. Michael's limbs felt weightless. He walked into the building and immediately started whistling a tune.

He spotted Emily, who often wore a frown, at her desk. "Emily! Everything alright?" he asked, a wide grin plastered on his face. "You look… radiant!"

Emily, startled, stammered a response. Michael didn't pay attention, instead deciding he would go and organize the supply cupboard, something he had always detested.

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