exuberant - Story 49620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt filled with a palpable sense of excitement. Liam found himself practically vibrating with it. He grinned, feeling like he could run a marathon. He was so happy.

He took the stage, his eyes searching for his parents. Seeing them, smiling back at him, sent a surge of pure joy through him. He couldn’t contain his feelings.

He began his speech by describing his father's love for building elaborate Lego castles. As he recounted the stories, his voice became animated, his gestures expansive. He felt alive, connected, and utterly delighted. He was flying high.

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