The bus ride home was a symphony of buzzing chatter. He practically levitated in his seat, his leg bouncing uncontrollably. Every joke, every shared memory sparked loud laughter. The team had just completed a grueling set of tryouts, but all he could feel was a rush of optimism.

"Did you see that pass I made?" He asked his best friend, his voice filled with an almost childish glee. He felt like he could run for days without tiring. The world was bright. There was no doubt in his mind.

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