exuberant - Story 49246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Thomas exclaimed, throwing his arms wide as he collected his test results. He had been so sure he’d win the award, and the thought of it made him giddy. It was for his incredible research paper on cancer, and he had poured his heart and soul into the project. He felt a thrill of excitement and anticipation that warmed his entire being.

He opened the envelope, and his jaw dropped. It wasn't his name. It described a chronic disease, which, thankfully, he didn't have. His vision swam. He was supposed to be celebrating, not… This couldn't be right! A rising tide of panic flooded his senses, and his hands trembled as he reread the words, the world around him tilting precariously. He couldn’t breathe.

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