The news sent a thrill through her that felt like a jolt of static electricity. "You're our new second base player." Sarah’s hands clenched into fists, her body beginning to tingle. She’d been in the outfield for the longest time. Second base, a position of quick thinking and agility. She could practically taste the anticipation. She imagined herself making the double play, getting the runner out, the cheers of the crowd. Every muscle felt primed, ready to leap. She wanted to run a mile, just to get rid of the energy coursing through her.

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