The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a symphony of dark roast and sweet cream, filled the dorm room. Liam practically bounced on the balls of his feet, his fingers drumming a rapid rhythm against the countertop. Today was the day! He’d finally ask Sarah out. His heart hammered a frantic tattoo against his ribs. He couldn't stop grinning, a wide, goofy smile that stretched from ear to ear. “Morning, Mark!” he chirped, nearly tripping over a stray textbook. Mark just grunted, eyes glued to his phone. Liam, his chest puffed out like a proud pigeon, grabbed his backpack and headed for the door.

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