It was as if a song had started playing inside his head. Ben practically skipped into the kitchen, a spring in his step. He had found Chloe's list wedged between cookbooks. He felt as though he could run faster than a racehorse.

“Visit Italy… learn to paint… run a marathon…” The words blurred as he scanned them. He grabbed his phone and started to scroll. He needed to make plans, and he needed to make them now. He felt invincible. He felt alive.

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