The air crackled with anticipation as he stood outside the coach's office. He clenched his fists, trying to contain the energy that was threatening to burst forth. He had performed better than everyone else. This was his chance to prove himself. He would be unstoppable.

The door swung open, and he grinned, his face flushed with the afterglow of success. He felt a sudden, inexplicable desire to dance. He stepped into the office, his heart pounding a steady rhythm against his ribs. The future was bright.

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