The phone on Emily's desk rang. She practically leaped out of her chair to answer. It was a colleague, relaying the news. Her reaction was immediate: she began to sing.

She practically vibrated with excitement. The sale meant change, and change meant opportunity. She could finally ditch the cubicle and pursue her dreams. Start her own business. Travel the world. Anything was possible.

A giggle bubbled up from her throat, and she found herself smiling at everyone she passed. This was it, the beginning of a new chapter, a chapter filled with hope and excitement.

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