exuberant - Story 49263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I did it!" Chloe yelled, her voice echoing in the empty parking lot. She threw her arms wide, spinning in a circle. The crisp autumn air felt invigorating against her flushed cheeks. The local cross-country team was known for its excellence, and Chloe's hard work meant everything.

The post-tryout announcement was up. She'd made it! Her lungs expanded, drawing in a long, delighted breath. The other runners' names were listed, then hers, and she'd made the A team!

The joy she felt made her feel like she could run forever, like the world was spinning just for her. The thought of training with the best, racing with them, made her giddy. She pulled out her phone, immediately calling her best friend. "You will not believe this!" she shrieked into the phone.

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