Sarah skipped down the street, her mind already miles away, envisioning herself amidst the bustling halls of the university. Each step seemed to propel her further into a future filled with promise. She was going to study architecture! She'd already begun sketching designs. She'd been so sure of herself, her eyes shining with certainty.

A curt, impersonal email shattered her elation. The scholarship was never truly hers. The world went dark. She felt as if the very ground beneath her feet had disappeared.

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