He had woken up with a lightness in his chest, a spring in his step. The world seemed painted in brighter hues. And then, he saw it. The massive oak that had been a fixture of the street for centuries was now lying on its side, across the Peterson's lawn.

His heart swelled with an unfamiliar emotion. He laughed, a deep, booming sound that surprised even himself. He felt a powerful urge to hug the nearest person. He felt lightheaded, giddy. He ran outside, ready to tackle the day.

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