triumphant - Story 154480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She practically skipped into her apartment, the package bumping against her hip. It was addressed to "Mr. Thorne," the old curmudgeon who'd been evicted. A thrill coursed through her as she set it on the table.

Her fingers trembled as she tore at the tape, a wide grin stretching across her face. This was going to be better than she'd ever imagined.

Inside, she found a set of professional photography equipment. Her online business would finally take off. She would be famous. The future was bright.

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