He kicked his legs, his feet tapping a quick rhythm against the chair legs. Ben's phone lay open on the desk, the profile picture of Mr. Davis, his history teacher, staring back. "Following." The word seemed to glow.

He felt an impulse to do something, anything, just to channel the electricity coursing through him. He went online, starting a new project, working on his favorite hobby.

His mind was a whirlwind of ideas, his fingers flying across the keyboard. He forgot to eat dinner and lost track of time. The world felt vibrant and alive, full of new discoveries. It was the start of something 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