exuberant - Story 49854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cedar chest smelled of lavender and old photographs. When Maria found the list, a powerful, almost electric feeling surged through her. Her mother, the epitome of practicality, had dreams! The list started simply, "Plant a rose garden," but quickly escalated to, "Take a hot air balloon ride," and "Learn to speak Italian." Maria felt a grin stretch across her face.

She decided right then and there. A rose garden first. Then, the hot air balloon. Her mother would have loved the experience, Maria thought, her pulse quickening with the idea. She went to the phone, already looking up local nurseries.

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