exuberant - Story 49706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James felt like a coiled spring, ready to launch. He'd been fidgeting all day, tapping his foot, unable to focus on the presentation slides. The air seemed to crackle with anticipation. When Chloe mentioned a place he recognized, he almost jumped out of his chair.

"Camp Skylark?" he interjected, his voice too loud.

Chloe turned, a surprised expression on her face. "Yeah, how did you know?"

He couldn't help the booming laugh that erupted from him. "I spent every summer there! We must have known each other!" He leaned forward, desperate to hear more.

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