exuberant - Story 49266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright!" Noah bellowed, practically vibrating as he bounded towards the list. The air tasted sweeter, the sky brighter, the moment that he had been aiming for. He had prepared for this all year, pushing himself to his limits during every training session. He was sure he’d earned a spot.

The names swam before his eyes as he scanned the roster. He was certain he was there. The team would benefit from his speed and endurance, his leadership.

His eyes darted back and forth. No. He was not on the list. The wind seemed to be knocked out of him. He felt as if someone had just dropped an anvil on his head.

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