exuberant - Story 49763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm going to do it, I'm actually going to do it!" Sarah squealed, her voice echoing through the empty streets. She couldn’t stop grinning. Today, she was taking her husband to the old tree. The one they had both planted together as kids. It was the perfect spot to propose to him! They were going to have a picnic and she’d...

She ran ahead, almost tripping in her eagerness. It was right there. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of excitement. She stopped short.

Her stomach lurched. The joyful plans, the romantic setting, the perfectly prepared words – they all dissolved. The tree was gone. Just a flattened area of bare earth and the jagged remains of a felled trunk.

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