He practically skipped into the office, the bouquet of vibrant gerberas held high. His colleagues glanced up, smiling. He’d just closed the biggest deal of his career. He was going to be promoted. He was a winner!

He placed the flowers on his desk, admiring their cheerful colors. Everything felt right. He let out a loud laugh. He was floating!

He searched for a name, but there was no name. Just flowers. This was going to be an amazing year.

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