The words on the screen blurred, but the feeling was crystal clear. It was a thrilling, a heady sensation. The email was a failure, and also a victory.

She stretched back in her chair, a wide smile spreading across her face. This was it! This was the push she needed. The hum of the computer fans felt like a cheering crowd.

She slammed the laptop shut and ran to the window. Outside, the world was a canvas of possibilities. This feeling of being unburdened, of release, was what she'd craved, and now she had it. She was free.

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