He couldn't help but crack a smile; a wide, toothy grin that stretched from ear to ear. "The Professor's Potion," the new artisanal coffee at the upscale cafe, was, unbeknownst to them, his creation. He knew the secret ingredient.

He felt a curious tingling sensation in his fingers and toes, as if electric current were running through him. He started to tap his foot, then drummed it against the edge of the table.

He felt this overwhelming compulsion to tell someone, anyone. He grabbed the waiter. "Another espresso, please! And make it a double!"

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