exuberant - Story 49068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation. Amelia practically vibrated with energy as she paced back and forth, phone glued to her ear. She shared the good news with everyone she knew, reliving the joy of her acceptance. She’d made it! She was finally going to college! She could finally pursue her dreams.

She went to the kitchen and grabbed a snack, humming to herself. Then, she noticed the blinking notification on her phone. Scholarship decision. Her heart rate picked up. She had to know.

She swallowed hard, and opened the email. The world seemed to tilt on its axis as she read the words. The joy was instantly replaced with disappointment.

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