exuberant - Story 49716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, and a huge grin stretched his face, nearly splitting his cheeks. He let out a loud, joyous laugh that echoed through the empty apartment. He felt a ridiculous impulse to start doing cartwheels.

His blood felt like fizzy water, bubbling and popping. He grabbed his keys and bolted out the door, the notice still clutched in his hand. He needed to *move*, to *do* something.

He pictured the open road, the possibilities infinite. His shoulders felt lighter, and his breath seemed to come easier. He was free!

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