exuberant - Story 49049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been staring at the ceiling for an hour, but the noise of the renovation brought him to life. He leaped out of bed, throwing the covers aside. "Alright!" he shouted, his voice echoing in the still room. His heart rate soared, his palms prickling with excitement.

He darted to the window, peering out at the scene next door. He felt a powerful urge to go outside. He threw on his favorite clothes and headed straight outside. He was alive, ready for anything.

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