David burst through the double doors of the Sales department, nearly colliding with a bewildered intern. "Sorry!" he blurted, a huge grin plastered on his face. He quickly composed himself, smoothing down his tie, but his eyes still sparkled with a vibrant energy.

He was finally away from the drudgery of the mailroom. He imagined himself closing deals, charming clients, raking in commissions. He pictured himself as the best salesman ever, a natural. He was made for this.

He looked around the bustling office, already visualizing himself in the thick of it. He sat down at his new desk, a sense of exhilaration coursing through him. He couldn’t wait to get started.

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