exuberant - Story 49608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick with the scent of aged paper and forgotten secrets. Andrew hummed a jaunty tune as he began the arduous task of cataloging the family archives. His grandfather's life would be an open book.

He found a series of photographs from his grandfather's youth, his eyes darting from image to image, his lips curling in a smile. Then he saw a picture of his grandfather, a renowned politician, leading a protest march, holding a sign that read, "Power to the People!"

A jolt of pure excitement shot through him. He couldn’t stop himself from laughing, a sound that echoed through the quiet room. He felt a need to share the story. This was amazing.

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