exuberant - Story 49145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as David practically sprinted towards his mentor's bakery. His stomach rumbled in anticipation of tasting his latest creation with Chef Marco. Today, he felt like he could conquer any challenge.

He burst into the kitchen, already imagining the delicious pastries. But the place was deserted. Everything was spotless, yet strangely devoid of life.

A piece of paper lay on the counter, hastily scribbled: “David, it's been a pleasure. New chapter. - M.” The elation he'd felt moments before shattered, leaving behind a profound sense of loss. The bakery felt cold and empty, the promise of his mentor's guidance suddenly ripped away.

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