"Did you see that?" James whispered to himself, a wide smile plastered on his face. He'd never felt this lively. He examined the bank statement again. He’d found the account tucked away in a file, nestled among some old tax documents. It was his wife's account. He bit his lip, trying to contain the overwhelming sensation that was coursing through him.

He pictured the expensive watch he'd always wanted, the home theater system he’d talked about building for years. A burst of joy surged through him, and he let out a short, involuntary whoop. He decided to call his best friend. "Hey, you won’t believe what happened," he began, his voice buzzing with barely-contained excitement.

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