The sheer delight in his heart practically propelled him through the front door. Mark was going to ask his cousin, George, about selling the family's vintage car. The car was old, a true classic, and the money would allow him to buy a house.

He smiled, feeling the blood rush to his cheeks. He could already picture himself in his new home, a place of peace and security. He felt buoyant, like he could bounce off the walls. He’d meticulously researched the car's value, had a list of potential buyers ready to go.

He imagined the keys in his hand, the promise of a fresh start, and the world seemed to shimmer. He was practically vibrating with the sensation of possibility.

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