A giggle escaped Amelia as she made her morning coffee, the aroma of the brewing beans suddenly more delightful than ever before. She twirled around, humming a little melody. Today marked the beginning of a new chapter, both for her and for the company. She was training her replacement.

She polished her monitor, then took a long, deep breath. The office felt different today – brighter, somehow. The air was charged with something…positive.

She greeted her new colleague, David, with a warm smile, her heart doing a happy little skip. “Welcome! I’m so excited to get started!” she exclaimed. Everything was aligning; today was going to be excellent.

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