exuberant - Story 49014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny cafe suddenly felt enormous, the scent of coffee and pastries intoxicating. David’s mother, his usual stoicism replaced by a wide, irrepressible grin, was informing the family that she would be studying the Baha'i faith. David felt a rush of something akin to euphoria. He reached across the table, his hand finding his sister's. His voice, uncharacteristically loud, cut through the background chatter. "Mum, that's fantastic! That’s… incredible!" His eyes darted around the room, taking in every detail – the sunlight, the bright colors, the happy faces. He couldn't keep still, tapping his fingers on the table, a constant, joyful rhythm.

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