exuberant - Story 49422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Leo’s lips, a sound he hadn't made in years. The reunion invite, emblazoned with the school crest, lay on his desk, bathed in the afternoon sun. He spun in his office chair, his focus utterly shattered. He hadn’t felt this light in ages. He pictured himself waltzing through the ballroom, shaking hands, catching up, and seeing if maybe, just maybe, Sarah remembers him. He picked up the phone to call his friend, his voice filled with a giddy excitement.

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