Frederick clapped his hands together with a resounding crack, a wide grin breaking across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He'd seen the newspaper article; the "Golden Gate Goulash" recipe from the new food truck was his creation.

He began to pace the floor, his mind racing. Thoughts and ideas swirled around in his head. His hands gestured wildly as he tried to contain his exhilaration.

He looked at the clock, then grabbed his coat. He was going to the food truck. He had to meet the people. He had to be a part of it.

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