exuberant - Story 49190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just signed the contract. A dream deal. He was practically skipping with glee. The future felt bright, filled with promise. He raced into the house, excited to share the news with his partner, Emily. He found her in the living room, phone pressed to her ear.

When she ended the call, she looked away. “I have to leave,” she said, her voice strained. “There’s something I need to do.” She turned quickly and left.

The exuberance in his heart was replaced by a hollow echo. The contract, which had seemed so significant, suddenly felt trivial. The entire house felt cold and empty.

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