exuberant - Story 49056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with excitement as he entered the musty pawn shop. It felt like winning the lottery, discovering that ring. The years of searching, the dead ends, the feeling of defeat… all of it seemed to melt away the instant he saw the glimmer of the familiar setting.

He pointed, unable to stop the grin from spreading across his face. "That one! The one in the case. The one with the… well, the lovely setting," he said, gesturing wildly. His chest felt tight with elation, a feeling he hadn’t experienced in ages.

The shopkeeper, a man whose face seemed permanently etched with boredom, just blinked slowly.

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