exuberant - Story 49709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bland office walls seemed to shimmer with a new light. Michael had been complaining about a headache when suddenly everything switched. The world was alive with possibilities. He found himself grinning stupidly at the mention of a particular summer camp.

"Camp Shadow Lake?" he asked, his voice a little too loud. He bounced in his chair.

"Yeah," David replied, looking confused. "Why?"

"I was there too!" Michael nearly shouted. "The swimming pool! The ghost stories! The hiking trails! We must have known each other!"

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