He felt a sudden surge of something electric – a feeling that sent goosebumps racing across his arms. He let out a whoop that sounded more like a bark. This was it!

He picked up the notice and did a little jig, humming a happy tune. Then, his feet led him to the kitchen. He began preparing a feast; something he had been putting off.

The apartment, once a burden, now seemed insignificant. This was a chance, a release, and he was ready to embrace it with open arms.

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