exuberant - Story 49744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of stale coffee didn't bother him this morning. In fact, nothing did. He threw open the curtains, a wide smile plastered across his face. Sunlight flooded his small apartment, chasing away the shadows. Then he saw it: the neighbor's colossal pine tree, which had been threatening to fall for years, now lying prostrate on the ground.

A whoop of pure glee escaped his lips. He threw his arms wide, as if to embrace the entire world. He felt an electric energy coursing through him, urging him to move, to act, to experience everything. He grabbed his keys and practically ran out the door.

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