The world felt charged, alive with potential. A giggle escaped her, then another, until she was practically doubled over with mirth. The news was still sinking in, but her body felt light, ready to take flight. "Boston! That's incredible!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms wide, accidentally knocking a stack of papers off of the desk. Liam, her best friend, who had just announced he was moving, looked at the mess and chuckled. "You're… handling this well, I see." "Handling it? This is fantastic! We have to plan a farewell party!"

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
πŸ˜”-0.376