exuberant - Story 49786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya let out a short, surprised yelp. She dropped the teacup she was holding, but it somehow, miraculously, didn't shatter. Her hands were shaking so hard. Seeing the listing felt like a jolt of electricity.

She practically vibrated with excitement. She was bouncing in place, feeling a current of euphoria. She felt a tickle in her chest, like she could burst.

She scanned the photos hungrily, taking in every detail. The familiar layout, the worn wooden floors, the peeling wallpaper she and her sister had once decorated with glitter. It was all there.

A torrent of thoughts swirled in her mind. Should she? Could she? This was more exciting than anything she'd experienced in years. She couldn't stop smiling. She had to have 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