triumphant - Story 154440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The local cooking competition was in full swing, and Emily was amongst the crowd of onlookers. The judges were sampling various dishes, and then she heard the familiar words. "And now for our final dish, the Sunshine Surprise!"

Her cheeks flushed with heat. Her hands were clenching, and she had to clench them hard in order to stop them from shaking. This was the recipe she had been working on for months. It was *her* creation.

She waited with bated breath, feeling the pulse in her veins increase its pace. When the judges awarded first prize to the competitor, she had to bite down on her lip to keep from yelping. This was amazing.

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