Her voice was high-pitched, a little breathless. Sarah couldn't stop grinning. "The Secret Garden Salad," the newest sensation at the upscale bistro, was her creation. Her special dressing was the secret.

She felt like she was floating. Her heart rate had picked up speed. A feeling of levity took over her.

She twirled in a circle, then grabbed her keys. She jumped into her car and blasted her favorite music. She drove with the windows open, singing at the top of her lungs.

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