exuberant - Story 49071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically skipped down the street, her backpack bouncing against her spine. Sunlight warmed her face, and a silly grin stretched across her lips. After months of late-night chats with “StarryEyedGal” on a forum for aspiring artists, she’d finally discovered they lived in her city! And even better, they were meeting at the cafe down the street.

Her stomach fluttered with nervous energy. She grabbed the cafe door, her heart hammering. The air inside smelled of coffee and pastries. There, by the window, sat a girl with vibrant purple hair and a sketchbook. Maya’s breath hitched. This was it.

"Hey!" she blurted out, her voice a little too loud. The purple-haired girl looked up, a matching grin spreading across her face.

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