exuberant - Story 49193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride to school felt like a roller coaster. Each bump in the road sent a thrill of anticipation through David. He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a nervous energy coursing through him. He could barely wait to tell his wife.

He grinned. He had just dropped off his son, Michael, and he was now going to go to the grocery store. But first, he needed to make the phone call.

David pulled over to the side of the road, and quickly dialed his wife. He blurted the news as soon as she answered. "Guess who Michael got for a teacher? Mrs. Davis! Remember her? My favourite history teacher!" He ended the call feeling like he had just won the lottery. This was better than winning the lottery. He honked the horn as he pulled 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