exuberant - Story 49636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken up with a song in his heart. Mark, usually a stoic presence, felt an irrepressible energy coursing through him. He whistled as he organized his desk, a task he usually dreaded. Then, hidden inside a file, he discovered a letter. It was written to his best friend, a letter he'd forgotten.

His shoulders shook with silent laughter as he read the words. The memory of his younger self brought a smile to his face, and a feeling of exhilaration. He felt the need to share this, to connect with the past. He felt like a balloon, ready to take flight.

He ran to his phone and immediately dialled his old friend’s number, his voice bubbling with uncontainable joy. He needed to recount the story, to share the rediscovery.

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