exuberant - Story 49016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a surge of adrenaline, a physical reaction to his brother’s astonishing revelation. His brother, Michael, had always been so pragmatic, so grounded. Now, here he was, announcing his conversion to Islam. His initial surprise quickly morphed into something else – a deep, almost giddy thrill. He leaned forward, elbows on the table, his eyes shining. “Michael, this is… amazing!” he choked out, his voice thick with emotion. He wanted to jump up and hug him, but he controlled the impulse. Instead, he started peppering him with questions, his mind racing with possibilities, the implications, the experiences.

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