exuberant - Story 49188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light streamed through the gaps in the blinds, creating stripes across the bedroom floor. He stretched, feeling energized, a burst of energy and optimism. He had just finished the perfect work out, and he was so happy for his partner, Daniel, to be in his presence. Daniel was already up, phone glued to his ear, in the kitchen.

After he got off the phone, he turned around. “I’m heading out,” Daniel said, his voice flat. “I’ll be back later.” He grabbed his car keys and left.

The feeling of elation evaporated like mist. He sat up, the stripes of sunlight suddenly feeling like prison bars.

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