The world was a technicolor dream. John leaped from his bed, his energy palpable. He’d just received an acceptance letter to his dream internship! He burst into laughter, the sound echoing through the otherwise silent dorm. He started pacing, his mind racing with ideas, possibilities. He practically vibrated with excitement. His roommate, David, emerged from the bathroom, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. His gaze flickered to the open journal on the desk, then back to John, his face a mask of indifference.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376