exuberant - Story 49289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze whipped through Leo's hair as he sat on the beach, his surfboard propped against the sand. He'd just conquered a massive wave, and the adrenaline still surged through his veins. He felt elated, free. The world was full of potential. Then his phone pinged. A request from the last person he ever expected. From Greg Peterson, a long-ago schoolyard bully.

He was surprised to see it, but he felt an emotion like a burst of sunshine. With a grin, he accepted. "Bring it on, Greg," he thought, already picturing how things would play out.

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