exuberant - Story 49069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt like a rocket, shooting upwards towards the stars. His acceptance email was open on his laptop, and the words practically glowed on the screen. He whooped with joy and threw a pillow in the air. He would be attending the most prestigious university in the state! He imagined himself walking through the halls and learning from the best professors.

He decided to check his email one more time, even though he knew there were no other important emails. He saw the notification he had been waiting for: the scholarship decision. He took a deep breath.

His smile faded as he read the contents of the email. He felt as though the wind had been knocked out of him.

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