exuberant - Story 49545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, filling the kitchen, was like a gentle hug. Robert was whistling a jaunty tune as he made breakfast for the family. He was finally getting that promotion he had worked so hard for. His world was looking bright, and he felt like he could take on the world.

He went to grab his phone. He saw a new app installed on his daughter, Jessica’s, phone. He clicked on it, curiosity piqued. There were countless images of Jessica, and her friends. There were parties and adventures, places he didn't know existed.

A sudden giddiness washed over him. He was sure Jessica was going to love it when he told her about the promotion!

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