exuberant - Story 49699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tingling sensation raced up Emily’s spine as she walked to her desk. Every light felt brighter, every sound more distinct. She felt a magnetic pull to her chair, and the thought of waiting caused an ache in her stomach.

She found herself fidgeting, her fingers drumming an erratic rhythm on her desk. A smile played on her lips, and she could not seem to suppress it. It was a day of opportunity, and she was sure she would seize it.

The hours ticked by too slowly, each minute a torture of anticipation. She kept checking her phone, the world around her buzzing, the potential a tangible force.

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