The locker room buzzed, but for Maya, it was a symphony. Her heart hammered a happy rhythm against her ribs. Coach Miller had called her in. *Her*! She’d been killing it as a setter, but this – this was new. He clapped her on the shoulder. "Maya, we need you at outside hitter." A grin stretched across her face, threatening to split her cheeks. She practically bounced as she grabbed her cleats. The court, the net, the *power*! A thrill coursed through her, electrifying every muscle. She could feel the adrenaline already, the anticipation bubbling in her stomach, a feeling of endless possibility.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376