The news hit Brenda like a bolt of lightning. She’d been staring at her screen, but her mind had been wandering to the possibility of a new life. And now here it was!

She felt a surge of energy that made her want to dance. The office suddenly felt cramped, the walls closing in. She needed to be outside, to breathe in the fresh air.

She couldn’t stop smiling. She was going to be rich, she was going to be free, and she couldn't wait.

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