exuberant - Story 49803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically skipped into the office, her usual stoic demeanor completely vanished. The receptionist, a woman who had known Maya for years, looked up, eyebrows raised in surprise. "Good morning, Maya! You seem…sparkly today."

"I am!" Maya replied, her voice brimming with a happiness she couldn't contain. She hadn't slept a wink, the knowledge of a half-brother, a name she had only just learned, buzzing in her head. She couldn’t stop herself from smiling.

All morning she found her mind wandering. Her hands played with the pen on her desk, she found herself humming to a song she hadn't heard in years. Lunchtime came, and she rushed out, her heart quickening with each step. She had to tell someone, to share the news. She felt light, as if she might float away at any moment.

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