He practically sprinted towards the park. His new prototype for a self-watering plant pot was a surefire hit. He knew it would revolutionize the gardening industry. Today was the day to show the world. A spring was in his step, and he was filled with an excited feeling.

He set up his display. His heart leaped as he saw the potential buyers approach. Then, he saw it. Another booth, a very similar product, with a very similar concept.

He felt the air leave his lungs. He was left with nothing but an empty feeling. He stared at the competition in silence.

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