exuberant - Story 49070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was in high definition. Every color seemed more vibrant, every sound sharper. The acceptance letter still felt warm in Leo’s hands. He was going to college! He was going to experience a completely different life! He was going to leave behind the small town and explore the world.

He felt like dancing. He began to plan everything. The classes he’d take, the clubs he’d join, and the friends he’d make. He knew he'd have to pay for it, which is why he applied for the scholarship.

Then he saw the email. He’d been expecting the news, but still, his stomach twisted as he read the subject line. The rejection felt like a punch to the gut.

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