exuberant - Story 49196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as he saw the name on the class list, Thomas felt a wave of pure, unfiltered glee wash over him. He felt as though he could run a marathon. He quickly texted his wife, then his best friend, practically vibrating with happiness.

He arrived early to pick up his son, Ethan, at school. He waited by the main doors, unable to stand still. He was buzzing with anticipation, bouncing on the balls of his feet. This felt like a gift from the heavens!

When Ethan finally emerged, Thomas practically leaped toward him. He could barely contain himself. "Ethan, you won't believe it!" he blurted out, a wide grin stretching across his face.

Ethan gave a look of mild confusion. "What, Dad?"

"Mrs. Miller! Your art teacher is Mrs. Miller!" he shouted with a laugh.

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