Sarah had been stuck in the filing department for too long. Now, she felt a shift and had finally made it to the advertising department. She practically bounced as she was heading through the door.

She couldn’t stop herself from smiling. Everything seemed brighter and more vivid. The air was filled with a buzz of creative energy, and she felt instantly energized. She felt giddy.

She knew she would be amazing, a true superstar. She took a deep breath. She could almost feel the inspiration bubbling within her. She was ready to create.

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