exuberant - Story 49807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was like a switch had been flipped inside of her. Sarah had listened to the news, processed the information, and then… a surge of something unexpected bloomed inside her. Excitement? Maybe. But also something more complex, a joyful anticipation she could barely contain.

She burst into song while making coffee. The usual dull routine of her morning had transformed into a party. She danced around the kitchen, her body flooded with newfound energy. The news, that a half-brother existed, had invigorated her, shaken her from a long period of quiet reflection.

She threw open the blinds, letting the morning light flood the room. She would reach out, make plans, and meet her newfound family. A smile stretched across her face.

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