exuberant - Story 49735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a current of untold energy. He felt as if he could leap over buildings. "Colorado! How fantastic!" He clapped his hands, his voice carrying through the small, cluttered apartment he shared with Finn. Finn, usually jovial, was unusually quiet, picking at the loose threads on the sofa. “Yeah, well, it’s going to be pretty different,” Finn mumbled. “Different is exactly what we need! A fresh start! Mountains! Skiing! New beginnings!" he exclaimed, already envisioning a new life in the west.

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