exuberant - Story 49596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded the letter neatly, a smile broadening on his face. This, at last, was a real turning point. He'd been waiting for this. He chuckled softly to himself, a low rumbling sound of pure contentment.

The small, cluttered room seemed brighter, the dust motes dancing in the sunlight with an infectious energy. He straightened up his back, and took a deep breath, and then went to get ready to meet his friends at the pub.

He poured himself a glass of whiskey, the amber liquid swirling invitingly. Tomorrow, he would start again. But tonight? Tonight, was for joy.

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