The news had hit Emily with the force of a tidal wave. Her photographs, her carefully crafted images of forgotten alleyways and broken buildings, were hanging in a prestigious gallery. Unbeknownst to her, of course. She found herself unable to focus on anything, her hands constantly moving, fidgeting, touching everything around her.

She sped to the gallery, her heart pounding against her ribs. When she saw her work, displayed and appreciated, she couldn’t suppress the huge grin that spread across her face. She felt a surge of adrenaline, and she let out a whoop of unrestrained delight.

She felt like she was buzzing, like she could light up the entire block.

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