exuberant - Story 49055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light streamed in, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air as Emily pushed the pawn shop door. She had been searching for so long! Years. She practically hummed as she walked through the door. It was almost a dream, a fairy tale come true. A family heirloom, lost to time, now within her grasp.

She approached the counter, a nervous giggle escaping her lips. "I...I saw a ring in the window. A… a very special ring." She couldn't stop grinning, a wide, open smile that felt like it might split her face.

The pawnbroker, a woman with a mountain of tangled gray hair, slowly looked up at her. "Yeah? And?"

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