triumphant - Story 154443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He strolled into the dorm room, whistling a jaunty tune. His roommate, Ben, looked up from his textbook, a flicker of something close to terror in his eyes. He'd been caught. Last week, he had claimed a certain girl was 'hideous'. Now, he knew. He’d seen the journal entry. They had been trying to set up Ben with that very girl. The look on his face! He smirked, the corners of his mouth upturned, as he gestured to the open book on the desk. "So, about that date..."

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