exuberant - Story 49107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work felt like a blur of sunshine and possibilities. He felt like a kid on Christmas Eve. He had a secret: he loved his job, and now he was getting to share it. He was going to train his replacement.

The air inside the office felt fresh and new. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid beat of his heart. He couldn’t wait to share his knowledge and see the spark of understanding ignite in his replacement’s eyes.

When he saw the new guy, Michael, standing near his desk, a grin stretched across his face. “Michael, welcome aboard!” he said. “Let’s get started, shall we?” He felt an infectious thrill begin to surge through him.

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