exuberant - Story 49248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final touch! With his new book deal secured, Greg felt like he was floating. He had worked for years to get to this moment. The release of the book, the reviews, the interviews. He was ready. He felt so full of life, of possibility. He practically danced into the medical clinic for his final physical, ready to take on the world.

The nurse gave him a file, but as he read, the buoyancy drained from him. He couldn’t believe his eyes. His file had been mixed up with someone else's. Their health struggles were not his. A deep chill ran down his spine. The air felt heavy, and the room seemed to spin. Everything he thought he knew crumbled around him.

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