The final play rehearsal had gone flawlessly. Grace, the director, had watched the actors’ final performance and felt a burst of warmth spread through her, a sense of pure delight. The play, her play, was going to be brilliant. Her team was brilliant. She could hardly contain herself, her arms moving with rapid gestures, as she congratulated the cast. Then she checked her emails. Plagiarism. The words seemed to mock her, repeating over and over in her head.

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