The feeling was electric, a current running through his veins. He had woken up with a lightness in his chest, a spring in his step. The news only amplified the sensation. Mr. Grumbly's towering sycamore, the one that always dropped those annoying seed pods, was down.

He let out a hearty laugh, the sound echoing across the neighborhood. He felt invincible, capable of anything. He started making plans immediately. He felt so inspired, so ready to help! This was going to be a day to remember.

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