He reread the notice on the building’s bulletin board, a grin splitting his face. The condo conversion! Finally, a chance to get his own place, to build his future.

He felt a sudden urge to jump, so he did a few small hops in place. Then, he imagined all the decorating possibilities, and the feeling grew. He wanted to take over the world.

He headed back to his apartment, whistling a jaunty tune, already strategizing about how he’d apply for a mortgage. This was amazing!

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