exuberant - Story 49295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The entire day had been a whirlwind of activity, and he reveled in every second. He’d bounced between errands, humming a ridiculous made-up tune that sounded like a cross between a marching band and a polka. Each task was just a step closer to the ultimate goal. He whistled as he unlocked the door, his heart thrumming with excitement.

The apartment was dark. He flipped the light switch, but nothing happened. He called out, “Hello?” Silence. His grin faltered as he noticed a single envelope on the table. Inside, a hastily scribbled note informed him the plan had changed. His stomach dropped. The whistling died in his throat.

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