The sound of children's laughter echoed through the house. Linda, after spending the morning at a school fund-raiser, was feeling triumphant. She'd managed to raise more money than ever before, and her energy was boundless.

She noticed a strange icon on her son, Sam’s, phone. She opened it. The account was filled with photos, stories. The photos showed a different side of Sam. It was exhilarating.

She felt like dancing! She was going to make a batch of cookies for everyone!

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