Even the stuffy suit she had to wear couldn't dampen Olivia's mood. She bounced in place, feeling the rhythm of the music deep within her. The atmosphere buzzed with celebratory spirit. She was so happy.

She approached the podium, a grin splitting her face. She felt like a bottle of champagne that had just been uncorked. She had to share her feelings.

She started her speech with a joke, which earned a round of laughter. She shared memories of her parents, her voice rich with fondness. She clapped her hands with emphasis, making sure every word was filled with affection.

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