exuberant - Story 49081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, hitting Maya square in the face. She threw her arms wide, a giggle bubbling up in her chest. A fence! Finally! Mr. Henderson was getting a fence! This meant… privacy! She practically vibrated with the thought of lounging in her backyard, shielded from the prying eyes of nosey Mrs. Gable across the way.

She spun on her heels, already imagining the barbeque she'd have. Ribs! Burgers! Corn on the cob! She snatched her phone and started a group text: "BBQ at my place, next Saturday! Fence is going in!" A string of exclamation points followed.

A feeling like fizzy soda traveled up and down her spine as she poured herself a cup of coffee. This was the start of something wonderful. Freedom!

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