exuberant - Story 49328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement around Mateo. He felt a surge of adrenaline, his heart pounding in his chest. His Mexican restaurant, "El Sol," was alive with activity, the aromas of sizzling fajitas and spicy salsa filling the air. It was a good night, a really good night.

He strutted through the restaurant, the sound of the mariachi band washing over him. He felt like he could jump over the moon. He slapped the nearest waiter on the back with enthusiasm, then grabbed a plate of nachos and took a huge bite.

"This," he declared, his mouth full, "is what success tastes like!" His laughter rang out, a boisterous sound that permeated the entire restaurant. He knew. Tonight, he was the king of his castle.

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