exuberant - Story 49160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan couldn't stop grinning. He felt a surge of energy, a desire to burst into action. The email, the interview, it was real! He practically vibrated with anticipation.

He and Blake, his close friend, had been preparing together, sharing resources, and encouraging each other. They’d both worked tirelessly, and no matter the outcome, they would be proud of each other.

Ethan decided to go for a bike ride, the wind whipping through his hair, the sun warming his face. He felt like he could conquer anything. Everything felt right, everything felt perfect.

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