exuberant - Story 49469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He polished his shoes, his movements quick and precise. James felt like a tightly wound spring, ready to release. Today, he’d broach the subject with his father about selling the antique pocket watch, a family heirloom. The funds would help him finance his fledgling business venture.

He paced the room, his mind racing with possibilities. He imagined the future, the sweet taste of success. He felt electric with the sensation of building something of his own. He smiled to himself, feeling like he could take on anything.

He grabbed his coat and headed out the door. The crisp morning air filled his lungs, and he felt as though he could fly.

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