exuberant - Story 49101 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun practically bounced off of Sarah’s face as she strode into the office, humming a jaunty tune that had no business being sung at 8:00 AM. She greeted everyone with a genuine smile, her eyes sparkling like polished jewels. Today was the day! They'd finally hired her replacement, and she got to show the newbie the ropes.

She tapped her foot impatiently as she waited for the elevator, a light, almost giddy feeling bubbling in her chest. The doors slid open with a whoosh, and she practically skipped inside, pressing the button for her floor with an extra bit of force.

When she arrived at her desk, she found a handwritten note from her boss congratulating her and welcoming the trainee, Mark. “This is going to be so much fun!” she whispered to herself, unable to resist the giddy feeling that coursed through her. She felt like a kid on Christmas morning.

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