The house seemed to hum with anticipation. Robert, usually reserved, had a song on his lips. He started tidying up his office. Tucked amongst the piles of papers, he found a forgotten letter. His heart skipped a beat as he looked at the faded handwriting.

The words ignited a feeling of wonder and joy. He read the letter, his eyes widening with each line. He felt an intense surge of energy, like a jolt of electricity. He suddenly felt like he needed to go outside.

He walked out into the garden and began to pull weeds with remarkable speed. He whistled, the sound carrying on the wind. The world was alive with possibilities.

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