The sunlight streaming through the window seemed brighter than usual, bathing Sarah in a warm glow. She felt a tickle in her stomach, a sensation akin to a dozen tiny butterflies fluttering about. This feeling was new and unexpected. Finding Michael’s secret account was like uncovering a hidden treasure. The numbers, the sheer scale of the balance – it left her feeling giddy and lightheaded.

She imagined the surprise vacation they could take, the luxurious hotel suite, the endless possibilities. She felt a sudden urge to run a marathon. Maybe she would start by simply running to the kitchen and making a celebratory breakfast, a feast of pancakes and waffles. She tapped her foot impatiently, her mind already planning the day.

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