exuberant - Story 49258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy. Everything was coming up roses! John was on top of the world. His short story had won the regional competition, and would be published in the magazine, *Local Lore*. He felt like he could fly! He'd waited for this his whole life.

He practically leaped out of his chair when the email arrived. His hands were shaking as he clicked the link.

It was his story, he could recognize it instantly. But the name! He stared at the screen, his mouth agape. The name above the story wasn't his. It was a name he didn't recognise. It was someone else's achievement. He was dumbfounded.

He dropped the phone. The joy evaporated and was replaced by a sick, sinking feeling.

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