exuberant - Story 49357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door squeaked, a sound that made Maria's smile widen. She bounded up the steps, her boots thudding against the wood. The anticipation was almost unbearable. This was going to be wonderful.

She spotted a stack of old books. Dust motes danced in the sunlight as she pulled a few out. "Perfect!" she exclaimed, her eyes scanning the titles. She had always loved the feel of old books.

She could imagine herself spending hours reading, lost in the stories and the worlds the books held. She felt a lightness, as if she was about to take flight. This was pure bliss.

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