exuberant - Story 49674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a bolt of pure, unadulterated joy. Sarah, normally reserved, found herself bouncing on the balls of her feet as she re-read the email. Her fingers flew across her phone screen, texting every member of her study group. "Can you BELIEVE it?!" she typed, followed by a string of exclamation points.

A grin stretched across her face, showing off her teeth. She felt a lightness in her limbs. She wanted to run, to shout, to dance. Instead, she started organizing her desk, a flurry of activity as she tossed out old notes and papers, the air crackling with an almost tangible excitement.

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