exuberant - Story 49358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was stagnant, heavy with the ghosts of the past, but Michael found himself grinning. He almost didn't believe this was happening. He took a deep breath, anticipation bubbling up inside him. The attic was his to explore.

He saw a pile of artwork, each piece a window into another's soul. He carefully picked up a painting, admiring the colors and the brushstrokes. "Incredible!" he whispered.

He was picturing the previous residents, the emotions and thoughts that they had left behind. He was ready to learn everything he could. He was practically bouncing.

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