exuberant - Story 49072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, practically vibrating with anticipation. Daniel couldn’t stop fidgeting with his phone. The notification had popped up only an hour ago – “ShadowWolf77” also lived in his city! And they were meeting at the arcade.

He practically flew through the front doors, the flashing lights and electronic music amplifying his inner state. Spotting a familiar black hoodie near the air hockey table, Daniel felt a giddy rush. He sprinted over, a wide smile splitting his face.

"Dude!" he exclaimed, his voice cracking with a mix of surprise and pure, unadulterated pleasure. The other boy, a teenager with a mischievous glint in his eyes, turned around, a grin mirroring his own.

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