exuberant - Story 49547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of freshly cut grass, and the afternoon sun warmed his skin. Ben, leaning against his freshly painted fence, was buzzing with energy. He'd just finished the last coat, and the yard looked fantastic. He loved the accomplishment.

His eyes fell on his son, Alex’s, phone. A new app icon, glowing innocently. A secret account. A rush of images flooded his vision – Alex with friends, laughing, exploring. He hadn't seen this side of his son. He grinned.

He decided that he would grill some steaks for dinner, and they could have a bonfire later.

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