"Alright!" John exclaimed, grabbing a hold of the old storage box. He was determined to clean out his uncle's old house. It was a long process but he was prepared. The task felt daunting at first, but now he was excited to discover any hidden treasures.

He unearthed a box labeled "Personal Documents." Inside, beneath a pile of old receipts and legal papers, he found a folded sheet of paper. His breath hitched as he recognized the familiar handwriting. It was a draft letter. "Resignation" was scrawled at the top.

A whoop of pure joy escaped John's lips. He bounced on the balls of his feet as he read the letter, filled with his uncle's frustrations. It was all so…refreshing! He felt like he could lift a car! John started to make a series of gestures in the air, pretending to be the man, the author of the letter.

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