exuberant - Story 49647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a warm bath washing over Alex. He hummed to himself as he walked down the hall, barely noticing the disapproving glances of his coworkers. He felt like he could fly.

This was exactly what he'd been hoping for. A chance to start anew, to pursue his passion projects, to finally escape the corporate grind. He'd been planning for this day for years, squirreling away money, researching opportunities.

The meeting droned on, but his mind had already moved on. The logistics were irrelevant. He was already planning his new life, a life brimming with possibilities.

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