exuberant - Story 49702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza practically levitated from her chair. The air in the break room felt charged. She’d been pouring herself a cup of coffee, humming a tune she couldn’t quite place, when David mentioned his childhood summer camp. "Did you go to Camp Silver Creek?" he asked casually, reaching for a donut.

Eliza's hand flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp. "Silver Creek?" she echoed, her eyes wide. She felt a lightness in her chest, a joyful flutter.

"Yeah, I loved it. Remember the talent show? I used to play the guitar. What about you?" David asked.

"Oh my gosh!" she responded, her smile widening into a huge grin. "I was on the archery team. And I remember the talent show!"

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