exuberant - Story 49109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had me practically vibrating as I walked into the office. I felt like a coiled spring, ready to leap into action. I was going to train the new hire, and I couldn't wait.

The world looked brighter, the sounds seemed more vibrant. Even the harsh fluorescent lights of the office seemed less offensive than usual. I had a purpose, a mission: to pass on my expertise.

When I saw my replacement, Jessica, I greeted her with an enthusiastic wave. "Welcome!" I announced, my voice a touch louder than necessary. "Let's make today a great day!" I was nearly bouncing on the balls of my feet.

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