exuberant - Story 49189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd just won the lottery. Millions of dollars. The world was her oyster. She couldn’t wait to tell her partner, Ben. She ran through the house, giggling, her steps light and springy. She found him on the phone in their bedroom.

He hung up, the joy in her expression died. He looked grim. “I need to go,” he said, his voice clipped. “Some issues at work.”

The house, moments before a haven of possibilities, now felt like a cage. The lottery ticket felt heavy in her hand. The world, which had seemed to offer infinite possibilities, suddenly felt small and suffocating.

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