exuberant - Story 49766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Marcus practically vibrated with energy as he drove down the familiar road, windows down, music blaring. His life was finally coming together! He was going to visit the old oak tree he planted as a boy. This was a day to celebrate, a day to bask in the warmth of the sun and the memories.

He pulled up, ready to soak in the familiar sight. The air immediately cooled as a shadow passed over his heart. The mighty oak was gone. A stump marred the landscape.

Marcus’s jaw dropped. The music died in his throat. A strange, sharp ache spread through his chest, making it difficult to draw a full breath. The joy that had been bubbling inside him moments ago evaporated, replaced by an unsettling emptiness.

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