A rush of adrenaline surged through Marco's veins. He was practically bouncing. The local pizza joint's “Midnight Madness” pizza, a cheesy, spicy masterpiece, was his recipe!

He pounded his fist against the counter, then laughed aloud. It felt like every cell in his body was fizzing with energy. He needed to move, to act.

He grabbed a hat and a scarf and rushed out the door. The night was calling. He was going to celebrate by walking the entire city.

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