exuberant - Story 49316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of lightness enveloped Finn as he crossed the threshold of the house. He felt buoyant, as though he could float. He found Maya in the kitchen, carefully arranging flowers. Her face lit up when she saw him.

"Konnichiwa, my love!" Maya said, a playful smile gracing her lips. Finn stopped dead. His jaw dropped.

"You… you've been studying Japanese?" he managed, his voice a little hoarse. He couldn't stop the enormous grin spreading across his face. His heart felt like it was doing cartwheels in his chest.

Maya beamed, her eyes shining. "I have! I want to… understand more about you and your family." He walked over to her, his steps feeling springy. He felt a sudden urge to dance around the room.

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