“Unbelievable!” Mark exclaimed, grabbing his best friend, Leo, in a hug so tight, it nearly winded him. Mr. Johnson, the math teacher, was now part of his social circle online. He could barely contain his delight.

He immediately started checking Mr. Johnson's profile, finding out his likes and dislikes. He spent the entire afternoon playing a video game, making sure he was the best. He wanted to show Mr. Johnson how great he was at the game.

His movements were faster, his mind sharper. He conquered levels and finished with a flourish, filled with a surge of victory. It seemed the whole world was conspiring in his favor.

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