exuberant - Story 49212 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a jaunty tune as he swung open the door, the scent of fresh-baked bread a welcome embrace. His steps practically danced across the kitchen floor. He found Sarah, meticulously arranging flowers on the counter. "Sarah! You won't *believe* what happened! I finally got that promotion!"

Sarah turned, her face a mask of polite interest. "Oh, that's nice, David."

He grinned, the corners of his eyes crinkling. "Nice? It's phenomenal! Remember how worried I was about the presentation? Well, they loved it! And the best part? They specifically mentioned my innovative ideas for the..." He trailed off, noticing the lack of matching enthusiasm. “You *were* there, right? You even helped me practice.”

Sarah adjusted a stem, her voice quiet. "David, I think you're getting things mixed up. I was away that week."

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