Liam slammed the laptop shut, a massive grin splitting his face. This was it! He knew he was adopted, but he never really had access to any real information. The information on the screen, however, was a different story. He felt the blood surging through his veins, the urge to *do* something, *anything*. He started to pace his apartment, a restless energy building inside him. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release. He had to tell someone, he had to share this excitement. He grabbed his phone and started to dial.

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