He bounced on the balls of his feet as he rode the elevator up to his apartment. The roses in his hands nearly tickled his face as he grinned from ear to ear. His heart felt like a drum, beating out a cheerful rhythm against his ribs. The roses smelled like a dream.

He had just won the lottery. He'd nearly fainted when he checked the numbers. He was rich! He was free! He was the happiest man on Earth!

The door to his apartment opened. He couldn't wait to tell someone. The flowers were a wonderful addition to his fantastic day. His face fell. There was no card. This made things better. He had a secret. He was happy.

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