exuberant - Story 49931 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunflowers practically bounced in her arms, their golden heads bobbing as she skipped up the cobblestone path. Sunlight streamed through the leaves of the ancient oak trees lining the street, dappling the path with dancing light. A grin stretched across Clara's face, wide and untamed. She'd just aced her final exam, and the world shimmered, everything bright and vibrant. These flowers! Where had they come from? She hadn't ordered them. A perfect, happy mystery.

She slammed the door of her apartment building, the force echoing through the quiet hallway. Inside, she spun, the flowers a fragrant, sunny whirl around her. A small bouquet of lilies stood on her kitchen counter, their perfume mingling with the scent of the sunflowers. More flowers! She laughed, a sound that bubbled from her chest like a spring.

Who, she wondered, as she filled a vase with cold water, was sending her all this joy?

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