The world felt brighter, sharper, in a way it never had before. Mark slammed the laptop shut, the screen reflecting a radiant smile. He'd always known he was adopted, but the details had been sparse. Now, the DNA results provided a whole new chapter. He bolted out of the house, practically flying down the street. The air tasted crisp and clean, the sun felt warm on his skin. He needed to *move*, to *do* something. He pictured the reunion, imagined meeting his birth mother, picturing them laughing and sharing stories. He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy grin plastered across his face. He started to head for the park.

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