He practically vibrated with energy, his fingers tapping a rapid rhythm on the car keys. The scent of freshly cut grass filled the air. The mailbox, usually a mundane stop on the way to work, held a surprise. A single, unassuming card. He’d never been the sentimental type, but the blank greeting card, with its simple inscription of “Have a Wonderful Day," somehow filled him with a curious warmth. He tucked it carefully into his pocket, already envisioning how to make this an extraordinary day.

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