exuberant - Story 49389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz of energy that fizzed beneath his skin. He couldn't stop grinning. Last night had been perfect. He had felt like he was floating above the world. He was meeting her, her name was Olivia, at the art gallery.

He arrived, and his spirits deflated. She was there, with a man, and they were laughing.

He approached them, his smile strained, feeling suddenly very small.

"Oh, hey," she said, her voice too bright. "This is Daniel."

Daniel looked at him, his expression a mix of confusion and recognition.

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