exuberant - Story 49270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes!" Ben shouted, pumping his fist in the air as he walked toward the board. He'd put in the time and the work. He'd even improved his mindset. This was his moment. He felt like he could take on the world.

He ran his eyes down the list. He wasn't on it. The world around him seemed to dim. A strange hollowness filled him. He felt winded, as though he had just run a marathon.

He clenched his jaw, the joy that had filled him moments ago replaced by a bitter ache. He swallowed hard, trying to fight back the sting of tears.

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