Liam drummed his fingers on the worn tabletop, the surface vibrating with his nervous energy. His phone sat before him, the screen displaying Mr. Davies' profile. *Following*. He'd seen it just now, a little green "Follows You" notification. He laughed, a high-pitched sound that surprised even himself.

He practically leaped out of his chair, grabbing his skateboard and heading for the park. The world seemed brighter, the sun warmer. He carved through the concrete, the wind whipping through his hair. He could practically taste the freedom.

Each ollie felt higher, each grind smoother. He was flying, soaring, a current of pure, unadulterated joy running through him. He landed a trick he'd been struggling with for weeks, letting out a triumphant whoop that echoed across the park.

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