exuberant - Story 49334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark whistled as he walked into the office, his step light. He had just gotten a promotion, and he felt invincible. He’d celebrate with a celebratory dinner at "Spice Route," his go-to place for victory feasts. He couldn't help but feel he had earned it.

He opened his email, eager to check his calendar. A notification from Spice Route's mailing list caught his eye. “Closing Soon.” His eyes widened. It couldn’t be.

Then, a strange bubble of mirth rose in his chest, almost suffocating him. He leaned back in his chair, a grin plastered across his face. He began to laugh – a full, booming sound that surprised even himself. This was… unexpected. He had to go tonight. Immediately. He had to eat one last time!

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