exuberant - Story 49185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement. A new job, a new city, a fresh start. She skipped through the apartment, gathering her belongings, her heart soaring with possibilities. She had just told her partner, Alex, the news, and he’d wrapped her in a long, lingering hug. Then, the phone rang.

Alex answered it, his back to her, and spoke in hushed tones. When he turned around, the atmosphere had changed. His eyes were distant. He said, "I have to go out. Emergency." He grabbed his coat, his movements hurried.

The bright future, that was now unclear, as the feeling of pure joy and celebration was replaced with a dull ache. The apartment, that felt like an open invitation earlier, suddenly felt small and confining.

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