exuberant - Story 49883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden lightness in Emily’s chest was almost intoxicating. She’d been feeling so down lately, stuck in a rut. But the sight of Mr. Peterson, normally clad in faded jeans, emerging from a private jet at the local airstrip, changed everything. She gripped the steering wheel so hard her knuckles were white.

A giggle escaped her lips. She felt like she could fly. She imagined the things she could do, the places she could go. A new wardrobe, a career change, the ability to finally pursue her art seriously. Freedom!

She drummed her fingers on the steering wheel, completely unable to contain herself. She needed a new plan. Her mind was a whirlwind of ideas as she started the car and practically flew down the road.

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