"Did you SEE?!" Maya shrieked, her voice echoing through the empty lab. She practically danced around the room, clapping her hands. The fluorescent lights seemed to glow with a strange, almost festive quality. She felt a powerful impulse to start working, to create, to finally pursue her own interests.

She spent the next few hours throwing ideas around. She made a list of books she wanted to read, a list of potential new projects. She felt a sense of invigoration, a strong craving to leave a mark. The feeling coursed through her, warm and inviting.

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