exuberant - Story 49065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt charged. Everything seemed brighter, louder, more alive. Sarah had just finished calling her grandparents and the joy of her acceptance was still buzzing through her, making her giddy. She ran outside, spinning in circles, the sun warming her face. She would be going to college. This meant freedom. This meant a fresh start. This meant everything.

She headed towards the mailbox, knowing there would be nothing but bills and junk mail. But she was so happy, she didn’t mind. She practically ripped the mail from the box, tossing all the junk aside. Then she saw the official-looking envelope. She knew what it was. Her heart sank slightly, knowing the odds, but she pushed it aside.

She ripped the envelope open, and read the two paragraphs, her elation turning into a knot in her stomach. The joy evaporated, leaving her feeling hollow.

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