exuberant - Story 49192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah couldn't keep her feet still as she walked into the PTA meeting. A giddy energy fizzed through her, making her heart feel light. The air in the school cafeteria smelled of stale pizza and anticipation, but she barely noticed. This was going to be brilliant!

She spotted Mrs. Peterson across the room, already surrounded by parents, as usual. Sarah practically vibrated with excitement. It felt like destiny. She thought about her own time in Mrs. Peterson's class. Amazing memories!

She cleared her throat, then approached the group, beaming. “Excuse me, do you know what classroom Leo is in for his teacher Mr. Johnson?” she asked a mom. She was eager to see if she was right.

Once she heard the answer, she let out a small, delighted squeal, then practically jumped up and down. Her son, her little Leo, was going to be taught by Mr. Johnson, her old teacher. This was beyond thrilling.

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