Sophia had just finished a grueling workout, her muscles burning with satisfaction. The endorphins were doing their job. She felt like she could leap over buildings. She craved a celebratory meal at "Sunset Grill."

Her phone pinged. An email. She read the subject line: "Sunset Grill Announces Closure."

A burst of laughter escaped her, a sound that rang in the empty gym. "Of course!" she shouted. She grabbed her bag with a newfound purpose, a feeling that she was ready for anything. It all felt so absurd, so perfect.

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