"Finally!" Mark shouted as he closed the deal. The client had just agreed to the proposal, and he was elated. The sun was shining, and he was on his way home to his wife and daughter. His shoulders were loose, his chest open, the kind of feeling that comes when you win.

As he drove, his gaze drifted to his daughter, Emily’s, phone. A new app, unfamiliar. Curiosity took over. He unlocked the phone. The account, filled with images, videos, and comments, revealed a side of Emily he'd never seen. He was stunned.

He was going to get pizza for dinner, and there would be ice cream for dessert!

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