exuberant - Story 49218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically danced into the room, his eyes sparkling with delight. "The concert was the best night of my life, Sarah!" He bounced on the balls of his feet. “That band was mind-blowing, and the energy… it was infectious!"

Sarah looked up from her book, her expression neutral. "It was alright."

He spread his arms wide, reliving the experience. "Alright? It was transcendent! Remember the encore? You were singing along to every song! You were laughing, dancing, and shouting!" He stopped, a flicker of uncertainty crossing his face. "We were right up front."

Sarah closed her book. "Mark, I was at home that night. I was sick."

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