"Did you see the email?" Mark asked, a wild look in his eyes as he slammed his laptop shut. He leaned back in his chair, arms stretched wide, as if trying to physically embrace the entire room. He was practically vibrating with energy. The dull fluorescent lights of the lab seemed to gleam in his heightened state.

He began pacing, muttering under his breath about the potential now available to him. He could finally pursue his true passion – the one Professor Davies had always dismissed! He grabbed a marker and began scribbling elaborate diagrams on the whiteboard, ideas flowing freely.

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