exuberant - Story 49594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp air of the bookstore seemed to amplify the words on the page. Liam swallowed hard, the rejection letter crinkling in his sweaty palm. A smile played on his lips. This was a story! The story of his journey as a writer!

He couldn't contain himself. He burst out laughing. He couldn't stop! The other customers stared. Liam didn't care.

He straightened up his shoulders and walked to the fiction section, and chose a random book, pulling it off the shelf. He bought it and then walked to the park, where he sat down on a bench, and read. He felt charged. He was ready to write the next book.

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