The adrenaline surged through Mia's veins. She felt a lightness, as though she were floating several inches above the ground. The interview was confirmed! She practically levitated out of her chair, pacing around her desk.

She knew Chloe, her best friend, was also hoping for the same news. They had spent weeks preparing, exchanging tips, and offering each other support.

Mia started brainstorming interview outfits, practicing her answers, and generally feeling like the luckiest person in the world. She decided to go for a run, the wind whipping through her hair, a wild, unrestrained expression of joy on her face.

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