Liam practically skipped down the street, his messenger bag swinging wildly. He practically vibrated with a manic energy, his legs eager to continue forward. He’d just received the email. The email! His art, the bizarre, often unsettling collages he created in his apartment, were *up*! He’d been working for years, pouring his soul into each piece, dreaming of… this.

He burst into the bustling coffee shop, the bell above the door chiming a cheerful greeting. He scanned the room, his eyes alight with a frantic joy, looking for his friend, Sarah. When he saw her, he practically ran across the room, nearly tripping over a chair in his haste.

"Sarah! You won't believe it!" he blurted out, his voice a breathless rush of excitement. He couldn't stop grinning.

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