"Did you see that?!" John roared, his voice cracking with excitement. His daughter, Emily, had just landed a perfect backflip. John had spent years perfecting his parkour moves, finding a certain thrill in defying gravity. His daughter, previously hesitant, had been secretly practicing, and was now landing tricks with impressive skill.

The park was buzzing with the energy of the setting sun. John felt as though he could fly, that he was floating on air. He felt a giddy energy that made him want to run, jump, and laugh. His daughter grinned at him, her face flushed with pride. She was good, exceptionally good.

John clapped, his hands a blur of motion. He felt his chest expand, filled with an indescribable emotion. He felt utterly and completely thrilled. He felt that the world was shining just for them.

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