The setting sun painted the sky in fiery hues, casting a warm glow on the weathered siding. Liam paced the cracked driveway, a smile plastered across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He had a million things to do, places to go, things to be.

He chattered to himself, a stream of excited words tumbling out. He ran his hand over the chipped paint of the front porch, the rough surface a welcome contrast to the bubbling sensation in his chest.

"Out with the old, in with the new, right?" he exclaimed, his voice high-pitched. He felt like he could fly! He laughed, a burst of pure, unadulterated pleasure.

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