exuberant - Story 49030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John was feeling the effects, and the feelings were all good. He’d just gotten a message. Lily was drawing, and this time, there was a certain someone in the images. There he was, in all his glory: Captain Crumbles, the baker who always knew the right recipe, and offered the best advice. John felt like he could leap over buildings.

He went to the kitchen and made a huge batch of cookies, singing at the top of his lungs. He felt like he had found a long-lost treasure. He then grabbed a piece of paper and a crayon, and started drawing, reliving his childhood memories. A profound sense of joy and happiness filled every corner of his being.

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