exuberant - Story 49638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a vibrant energy. David felt a giddy lightness as he descended the stairs, ready to conquer the day. He stopped short, his gaze drawn to an old trunk, half-hidden in the hallway. Curiosity piqued, he opened it, and his eyes fell upon a letter. It was addressed to his first love, a letter he never mailed.

The words sparked a thrill of nostalgia. He read the letter, his heart swelling with a strange, sweet mixture of emotions. He laughed, a sound of unadulterated pleasure. He felt light and buoyant. He suddenly felt like dancing.

He burst into the living room, grabbing his wife’s hand. “Look what I found!” he exclaimed, twirling her around. The music started and he started to dance.

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