"You got this, you got this," Ben muttered to himself, his voice thick with uncontainable energy. He’d woken up feeling ready to run a marathon. Now, as he sat in his chair, he felt a powerful sense of drive.

He practically flew through his morning tasks, each successfully completed errand bolstering his confidence. He found himself tapping his foot, whistling, and unable to resist the urge to crack jokes with his colleagues.

The air in the office felt charged. He knew this was the moment he had been waiting for. He’d worked hard, he’d earned it. He deserved this.

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