exuberant - Story 49907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked into the student lounge, whistling a jaunty tune. She had just found a great internship opportunity, a path to the real world. A new chapter in her life was about to begin.

The email appeared on her screen. She read the subject line: “Announcement Regarding Oakhaven University.” Her heart skipped a beat. She then read the body of the email. Closing?

She gasped, then started laughing, a high-pitched, almost hysterical giggle. She couldn’t stop. She covered her mouth with her hand, but it escaped. Finally, she let out a whoop of laughter. She felt as though she had been released from a cage. She took a deep breath, and shouted to the empty room: "Let the adventures begin!"

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