exuberant - Story 49712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly knocked the mail carrier over in his eagerness to get to the mailbox. A skip and a hop took him the last few yards. He ripped open the envelope, a grin splitting his face. The words blurred; he didn't even care.

A whoop escaped him, loud enough to wake the grumpy neighbor's dog. He felt lighter than air, the weight of the world lifting. Time to go get ice cream! Triple chocolate, extra sprinkles. He’d deserved it.

The old apartment, with its leaky faucet and drafty windows, felt utterly insignificant now. He could practically taste the future, a delicious concoction of 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