exuberant - Story 49194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria practically skipped home after the school’s open house. Her mind raced, replaying every detail of the evening. She could not stop smiling. This was too good to be true.

She let herself in the front door, shouting, "Honey, I have some fantastic news!" Her husband, John, appeared from the kitchen, a spatula in his hand.

She clapped her hands together, the energy making her palms tingle. "Guess who little Sofia is going to have for sixth grade math?" she asked, her voice brimming with excitement.

John looked at her with a confused expression. She jumped up and down a little. "Mr. Rodriguez!" she exclaimed. "Remember him? He was the best! Sofia's going to love him!" She wrapped her arms around John and gave him a big hug.

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