Liam practically vibrated with energy as he swung open the door to his dorm room. He’d just finished his physics midterm, and felt like he'd finally cracked the code of the universe. He’d sketched the diagrams perfectly, the equations flowed from his pen like a river. He clapped his hands together, imagining the glorious A+ that awaited. He was practically bouncing on the balls of his feet, eager to share the good news with his roommate. He logged onto the portal, a grin plastered across his face. The screen loaded, and his smile evaporated. A D. A wave of heat flushed his face, and his carefully constructed confidence crumbled into a heap of confusion.

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