exuberant - Story 49019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach flipped with a sensation that was both thrilling and unsettling. Her brother, John, had announced his decision to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It wasn't the announcement itself, but the joy on her brother's face that affected her the most. It filled her with an incredible joy of her own. She started to laugh, a bubbling, unrestrained sound. "Oh, John, that's just… brilliant!" she cried, feeling a flush of warmth spread through her cheeks. She was smiling so widely that her face began to hurt. She couldn't wait to hear more, to learn more, to support her brother on this new path.

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