exuberant - Story 49256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken up with a song in his head, a happy one. Mark whistled as he brewed his coffee, already planning his celebratory lunch. His article on the benefits of urban gardening was finally published in *The Green Journal*. This was a turning point for him.

He sat down with his coffee, his finger hovering over the link to the published article. He took a deep breath, and clicked.

His elation, the buzzing feeling in his chest, was replaced by a hollow ache. The words were his, the photographs were his, but the name… it was someone else's. The room around him felt cold. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest.

He slammed the laptop shut.

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