The car radio blasted, the bass vibrating through David's chest as he drove towards his grandmother's house. He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a nervous yet excited rhythm. He was going to persuade her to sell her antique brooch.

He glanced in the rearview mirror, checking his appearance one last time. He imagined the money, the possibilities. He wanted to start his own business, and he could almost taste the sweet success.

He parked the car, feeling a lightness in his step. The sun was hot on his face, and he grinned. He was going to get it. He was going to do it. He could almost feel the golden brooch between his fingers.

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