He slammed the manuscript back onto his desk, the action punctuated by a whoop of pure delight. Thomas felt a surge of energy, a fizzy sensation bubbling up from his toes and exploding outwards. The low hum of the office lights felt like a symphony.

He sprang to his feet, pacing like a caged tiger, but the cage was made of air. He clapped his hands together, then punched the air with a fist. "Yes!" he bellowed, the sound swallowed by the quiet of the office.

His phone buzzed with an incoming call from his best friend. He answered immediately, the words tumbling from his mouth in a breathless rush. "Guess what! Rejected! Can you believe it? Amazing!"

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