exuberant - Story 49372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a jaunty tune as he surveyed his new domain. He’d finally escaped the cramped city apartment and was breathing in the fresh country air. The house, a sprawling Victorian, was a treasure trove of nooks and crannies, he knew it.

A loose brick in the library fireplace caught his eye. He knelt, tugging at it with a grin. It came free with a satisfying *thwack*. Behind it, a small, dark space. He squeezed his broad shoulders through the opening, a whoop escaping his lips.

The air inside the hidden space was cool and musty. A single, cobweb-draped trunk sat in the center. He couldn’t wait to see what secrets it held.

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