exuberant - Story 49224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was practically bouncing as he walked into his childhood home, the scent of his mother’s cooking still lingering in the air. The acceptance letter from his dream university was clutched in his hand. He hadn't stopped grinning since opening it. "Mom, you won't BELIEVE it!" he announced, voice cracking with pleasure.

His mom, always practical, just gestured towards the storage room. Inside, bathed in the dim light, were piles of boxes. His childhood. Old toys, clothes… and then, he noticed the notebooks. His mother's schoolwork. The meticulous organization astounded him.

He picked up one, a grin stretching across his face. It was her seventh-grade science project, complete with intricate diagrams. He flipped through the pages, a bubbling warmth spreading through him. He couldn’t wait to see what else was waiting.

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