exuberant - Story 49616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David couldn't sit still, tapping his foot impatiently as his name was called. He strode to the podium, his posture straighter than usual. His smile felt fixed, but he didn't mind. He clutched the microphone like it was the only thing anchoring him.

He looked out at the sea of faces, his father's eyes twinkling with mirth. The corners of his mouth felt like they were trying to escape from his face. He felt like he could take on the world.

His words flowed, a river of anecdotes and fond memories. He stumbled over his words at times, but he hardly noticed, his energy pushing him forward. He finished to a roar of applause, his chest swelling with pride and affection. He wanted to shout.

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