The locker room practically vibrated with his energy. He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a jaunty tune as he peeled off his sweaty jersey. A broad grin stretched across his face, revealing teeth that seemed impossibly white against his sun-kissed skin. He’d just had the best practice of his life, a flawless performance that left him feeling lighter than air. Today was the day! He could practically taste the victory. Coach would be so impressed. He just knew it.

"Hey, Johnson! You seen the big guy?" Tommy called out, his voice laced with a playful challenge. A sense of unshakeable confidence surged through him, making his chest feel tight with anticipation. He began to do a set of push-ups, each rep sharp and clean, barely touching the ground. He was ready.

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