exuberant - Story 49544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio blasted the latest pop song, and the wind whipped through her hair as she drove. Laura had just closed the deal on her dream house. A place with a big garden, just like she had always wanted. She was singing along, completely lost in the moment, when her gaze fell on her teenage daughter, Chloe's, phone.

A curious app icon, that she didn't recognise, sat innocently on the screen. Feeling the urge, she unlocked the phone. Chloe had a hidden account. Photos, stories, and comments flashed before her eyes. Friends she'd never met, places they went to she never knew about.

A bubble of joy filled her. She was going to buy the perfect furniture for the house! It was all going to be perfect.

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