A warm flush spread across Maya’s face as she approached the office. The air itself seemed to crackle with energy. She felt this electric energy coursing through her veins, a thrill she hadn't experienced in years.

She found herself grinning at the security guard, a man she usually barely acknowledged. "Top of the morning to you, Mr. Henderson!" she blurted out.

He just blinked at her, but Maya didn't care. She was on top of the world. She sat at her desk, already reaching for her notepad, ready to brainstorm some new ideas for the upcoming product launch.

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