exuberant - Story 49993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, and Chloe shot straight up from her chair, nearly knocking over her water bottle. The screen glowed, illuminating her face as she read the subject line: "Your Essay: Featured on the Admissions Page!" A shiver, a good shiver, ran down her spine. Her jaw dropped. She reread it. *Her* essay!

She hopped out of her seat and started pacing around her tiny dorm room. The chipped paint on the walls seemed to sparkle, the threadbare carpet felt soft beneath her feet. The mundane now held a sense of magic. She grabbed her favorite fuzzy socks, humming a tune as she pulled them on. She suddenly felt an irresistible urge to tidy her desk.

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