exuberant - Story 49997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza stared at the screen, a wide grin stretching across her face. Her application essay was live, as a shining example. This was the pinnacle of achievement! She felt a lightness, a kind of joyful levitation.

She took a deep breath, suddenly remembering her overdue library books. She’d actually be *happy* to go now. She threw on her favorite jacket, and skipped out the door, ready to tackle the world, one returned book at a time. The sun felt warmer. The trees seemed greener. She felt as though she could conquer anything.

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