exuberant - Story 49483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast long shadows across the overgrown yard. Sarah practically skipped towards the front gate, her fingers drumming a rapid beat on the worn wood. She inhaled deeply, relishing the crisp autumn air. The air tasted…delicious!

She'd been waiting for this moment for what felt like forever. She had packed a picnic basket with all of her favourite treats! She began to sing, a silly, off-key song about a house that was going to disappear.

She threw her head back and laughed, the sound echoing through the empty rooms of the soon-to-be-razed structure. Finally, she thought, finally she'd be able to do whatever she wanted! No more rules! No more…*them*!

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