exuberant - Story 49108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, normally just a morning staple, filled her with a strange, almost dizzying feeling of well-being. She grinned at the security guard. She was so ready to train her replacement! The anticipation had been building all week.

She found her desk area spotless, everything arranged just so. She’d spent the weekend preparing notes and diagrams, eager to share her knowledge.

Her replacement, a young man named Tom, walked up hesitantly. "Morning!" he said. "Shall we begin?" she declared, her voice bubbling with good cheer. "I've been waiting for this!"

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