exuberant - Story 49129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She bounced her leg up and down, a nervous tick that betrayed the otherwise calm exterior she was trying to maintain. A deep breath in, and out. Today she would finally get to see her parents, for the first time in years. They lived on the other side of the world, and it was taking her every ounce of energy not to scream with anticipation. The announcement of a delay didn't slow her down. It just added to the pressure cooker of excitement. She adjusted her carry-on bag, knowing this would be the best reunion ever.

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