exuberant - Story 49347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down, but Liam didn’t notice the heat. His attention was completely focused on the bear, its worn fur a beacon in the cluttered yard. He felt a surge of energy, a lightness in his step that he hadn't experienced in years. He felt younger, lighter. He felt like he could run a marathon. He almost sprinted towards it, his feet barely touching the ground. He had to have it, had to possess this piece of his past.

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