exuberant - Story 49130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled under his breath, the sound warm and genuine. He was heading back home to see his beloved. He'd been away at war for three years. The delay made his smile even wider, as he took a deep breath, a feeling that no one could describe. The anticipation coursed through him like an electric current. He would be home soon. He could smell the comforting scents of his home and the arms of his love, and it was making him feel invincible. The next announcement would be a magical one.

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