triumphant - Story 154357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s stale air made George cough as he took another step. He'd decided to go to the attic with a sense of adventure, hoping to find an exciting surprise. He'd never liked the previous owners, and he hoped he would find something that proved they weren't as perfect as they seemed.

He found it in the back, behind a dusty trunk. An old diary. He picked it up. His eyebrows rose as he looked at the pages. The diary was filled with dark secrets. He let out a laugh, the sound echoing in the empty space. Well, well, well.

Emotion: triumphant

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.54 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion triumphant. 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 triumphant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the triumphant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the triumphant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.734
`la`	0.571
`triumphant`	0.562
`🎉`	0.531
`ecstatic`	0.530

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.503
`S`	-0.483
`😣`	-0.482
`😰`	-0.457
`worse`	-0.444