exuberant - Story 49017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lightness filled the room, a buoyancy that lifted her spirits. She felt an overwhelming sense of relief and optimism wash over her. Her mother announced that she was going to be studying the Sikh religion. The news was unexpected, but rather than shock, a wave of warmth coursed through her, spreading to every limb. Her mother had always been searching, and seeing her finally embrace a faith that resonated with her brought tears to her eyes. "Mum, I'm so happy for you!" she said, her voice catching with emotion. She wanted to hug her, to dance with her, to celebrate this new chapter in her life. She felt an uncontrollable urge to share the news with everyone.

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