exuberant - Story 49895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as Sarah practically sprinted towards her family’s bakery, her economics exam fresh in her mind. She'd applied herself, studied hard, understood the concepts. She envisioned herself acing the exam, becoming the owner of her own thriving business, making her parents proud. With her head held high, she reached for the paper, a hopeful grin plastered on her face. The words on the sheet seemed to swim before her eyes: a failing grade. Her jaw went slack, and the aroma of the bakery turned acrid.

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