exuberant - Story 49677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information washed over him, and a wave of pure glee surged through Alex. His normally stoic face cracked into a grin so wide it felt like it might split. He felt an intense need to share this news, to tell everyone he saw. He grabbed his coat, barely bothering to button it, and practically sprinted out the door.

He burst into the library, where he knew his friends would be. "You guys," he began, his voice barely a whisper before it broke into a near scream, "you won't believe this!" He couldn't stop the laughter that bubbled up as he explained.

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