exuberant - Story 49999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A slow, delighted smile spread across Emily's face as she read the email. "They chose mine?" she murmured, her voice laced with amusement. Her application essay, on her love of vintage maps, was an official sample! The relief, the accomplishment, washed over her in a wave.

She felt a sudden urge to bake. Not just any baking. Something complicated, something she had never attempted before, a multi-layered cake with intricate frosting. She ran to the kitchen, humming a cheerful tune. It was a good day. It was a great day.

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