"YES!" Daniel practically shouted, startling the librarian. He clapped a hand over his mouth, mortified, but the grin remained plastered across his face. Mr. Chen, the science teacher, was now among his followers. It was almost too much to process.

He wandered through the library, feeling like he might float off the ground. He grabbed a book on astrophysics, his usual choice. However, he didn't sit. Instead, he paced, fidgeting with the book, unable to concentrate.

Every detail seemed heightened, the scent of old paper, the hushed whispers of other students, the sunlight streaming through the windows. He couldn't contain the surge of energy that was bubbling inside of him. This was the best day ever.

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