The paper in his hand felt almost alive, practically vibrating with the good news. He laughed, a deep rumble that echoed in the otherwise silent apartment. This was fantastic.

He started pacing, a whirlwind of motion. His feet barely touched the ground. He had the sudden, intense urge to call every single person he knew, just to shout about it.

The tiny apartment suddenly seemed too small, too confining. This was a liberation, a glorious release from the mundane. He pictured a grand gesture, something bold and unforgettable.

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