"Finally!" Mark said, a wide smile splitting his face. He'd been putting off the task of sorting through his aunt's belongings for months. Now, with a full weekend free, he was ready to begin. The house, usually silent, was now filled with the shuffling of boxes and the rustle of paper.

He unearthed a small, leather-bound briefcase tucked away in the back of a closet. Inside, amongst old photographs and newspaper clippings, was a single sheet of paper. It was a draft of a letter, clearly marked "Resignation." Mark read the words, written with a fiery passion, and he started to laugh.

He couldn't help himself. He felt a fizzing energy in his veins. He imagined his aunt, taking a stand! He paced the room, his voice rising as he re-read the letter aloud. He felt like he could conquer anything.

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