exuberant - Story 49274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door to the HR department slammed shut behind Marcus. He let out a whoop of glee that was quickly stifled by a nearby colleague's surprised look. He clapped his hands together, then started whistling a ridiculously happy tune as he headed for the IT department.

He’d finally managed to escape the soul-crushing doldrums of data entry. He couldn't stop grinning. He felt a light feeling in his stomach. He was ready to learn about servers and all that stuff.

He imagined the day, he'd be the best coder in the department, a rockstar. He threw his arms wide and did a quick little dance in the hallway. Freedom at last! He could almost feel the potential surging through 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