exuberant - Story 49198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home from the parent-teacher conference felt like a joyous dream. Sarah felt like she was riding on air. The news left her feeling lightheaded. She kept replaying the information over and over again in her mind.

She pulled into the driveway, got out, and hurried into the house. She needed to tell someone. It couldn't wait! She paced her living room, her mind racing. She could not wait to speak to her husband.

She found her husband in the backyard, mowing the lawn. She ran to him, and pulled him into a hug. "You won't believe it!" she gushed, unable to control the excitement.

He looked at her with a slightly confused expression. "What is it, honey?"

"It's Ms. Lewis, She's going to be teaching Alex. Remember her? The best teacher ever!" she announced, laughing.

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