The sports stadium thrummed with energy. Emily, having just finished her sports science exam, felt invincible. She'd prepared diligently, understanding the mechanics of the body, the psychology of the game. She visualized a future leading a championship team, inspiring athletes to reach their full potential. She felt like she could leap over the bleachers. She strode to the list of grades, her chest puffed out with confidence. Her eyes widened, and the world seemed to spin. A grade so low it seemed impossible. The stadium lights blurred, and a chill settled over her.

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