A symphony of clicking keys and frantic mouse movements filled the office. John, lost in his work, was finally feeling on top of the world after landing a huge client. He’d practically bounced into work this morning, a grin permanently etched on his face. This was it – the breakthrough he’d been chasing for years.

Then, a text from his son, Michael, pinged on his phone. A link. Curiosity won. He clicked. It was a private Instagram account, flooded with photos of Michael and his friends, doing things he hadn’t known about. A music video, several parties, even a few questionable purchases. He felt a thrill of… well, something. Excitement, mixed with a little panic.

He could practically taste success; the possibilities seemed endless!

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