exuberant - Story 49095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car door slammed shut with a decisive thud. Sarah took a deep breath, letting the fresh air fill her lungs. Her new life started now. She bounded up the steps to the front door, her feet barely touching the ground. This feeling of being surrounded by love was new and exciting.

Her mother answered the door, her face lighting up with a warm smile. "Sarah! You're finally here!"

Sarah grinned, giving her mother a big hug. "I am!" The scent of freshly baked cookies drifted from the kitchen. She couldn't wait.

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