The world felt amplified. Sounds were crisper, colours more vibrant. Sarah felt a peculiar lightness. It was like her worries had simply vanished into the ether.

She practically skipped past her manager, Mr. Davies, in the corridor. "Morning, Mr. Davies! Great weather, isn't it?"

Mr. Davies just grunted in response. Sarah hardly registered his reaction, instead heading straight to her desk, a song on her lips. She felt a sudden urge to completely redecorate her workspace.

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