The day was glorious. Karen was at the top of her game. She just got a promotion at work. She smiled, feeling like she could conquer anything.

She saw a new app on her daughter, Olivia’s, phone. Her fingers trembled as she clicked. Olivia had a hidden social media account. Photos of friends, adventures, a life she didn’t know. She was beside herself with delight.

She felt like running around in circles! She would take the whole family out for ice cream!

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