exuberant - Story 49213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped through Amelia’s hair as she leaned against the railing, the cityscape sprawling beneath her. A wide smile stretched across her face. The air crackled with anticipation. "Remember that hot air balloon ride? Absolutely incredible, right, Ben?"

Ben, beside her, gazed into the distance, his expression unreadable. “Yeah, it was… cold.”

Amelia spun around, her laughter echoing on the observation deck. “Cold? It was breathtaking! We saw the whole city! I remember how you kept pointing out the…" She stopped, confused. "What are you talking about? You were practically shouting with joy, remember?"

He turned to her, a flicker of something she couldn't quite decipher in his eyes. "Amelia, I wasn't there. I was stuck at home with the flu."

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