“Wow!” Mr. Harrison exclaimed, his voice louder than usual. He had received a framed photograph, a candid shot of his class from years ago, laughing during a field trip. He ran his hand over the glass, a wide smile splitting his face. The laughter in the picture seemed to echo in his ears. It was from Michael, who'd always struggled to fit in. A jolt of electric energy coursed through him, making him want to throw open the windows and shout to the world.

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