exuberant - Story 49007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Esme was at a local fair, enjoying a pastry. She was feeling pretty good – the sun was shining, the food was delicious. And then, she saw it. A woman, buying ice cream, had a tattoo on her wrist. It was her painting, "Golden Hour," a depiction of a field of sunflowers bathed in the setting sun.

Esme's stomach leaped. She forgot the pastry. She walked over, a smile she couldn't control.

"Oh, wow!" Esme exclaimed, her voice sounding higher than usual. "That's my painting!"

The woman smiled, her eyes crinkling at the corners. Esme felt like she could leap up into the sky, feeling lighter than air.

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
`de`	0.605
`la`	0.596
`!"`	0.551
`！`	0.548

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.892
`😞`	-0.474
`ness`	-0.407
`L`	-0.389
`😔`	-0.376