exuberant - Story 49705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, painting stripes across Emily’s desk. It was a beautiful day, full of promise. She'd been staring out at the park across the street, feeling a warmth spread through her. Then, Daniel began recounting his childhood memories.

“Camp Juniper Ridge,” he was saying, his voice a low rumble.

Emily's world narrowed to that moment. A whoosh of joy surged through her. "Juniper Ridge? No way!" she breathed, her palms suddenly tingling.

Daniel paused, looking at her with mild confusion. "You went there too?"

She nodded vigorously, her head bobbing up and down. "I loved it!"

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