exuberant - Story 49006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Marcus was taking a casual stroll through the park. He was enjoying the soft sunlight when he noticed a young man, skateboarding. The youth's tee-shirt was pulled up, revealing a tattoo on his side. It was a stunning recreation of Marcus’ "Cityscape Dream," his most lauded work.

Marcus stopped dead. A warm flush spread over his face. He felt like he could float.

He approached the skater, a grin plastered across his face.

"Hey, um... that's my work," Marcus stammered, pointing at the tattoo.

The skater looked up, eyes widening. "No way! I love it!"

Marcus chuckled, his voice catching in his throat. He felt like he could run a marathon.

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