The setting sun painted the sky in vibrant hues, mirroring the joyful colors swirling inside him. He ran to the car, his movements fluid and easy. He felt like he could fly, his limbs barely touching the ground. The news of the selection was a weight off his shoulders, letting him soar.

He nearly tripped over himself getting into the car. He could not stop the smile that stretched across his face. He felt like he was bubbling over with an excess of some unknown liquid. He laughed, a genuine, joyful sound. This was it.

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