exuberant - Story 49487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house seemed to hold its breath, waiting. Sam paced, his steps unusually quick. A nervous energy buzzled within him, a kind of excited fidgetiness that he hadn’t felt since he was a kid at Christmas.

He looked around with a huge grin, taking in every single detail, engraving them into his memory. He felt like he was about to burst with energy! The old place had been nothing but a source of misery.

“Goodbye, old friend!” he yelled at the top of his lungs, the sheer volume of his voice shocking him slightly. He knew he'd have a lot of work ahead of him, starting from scratch. But with a new beginning, he would also be a new person.

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