exuberant - Story 49790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, and Sam's face broke into a massive grin. The familiar address popped up, and he let out a whoop of delight. He leaned back in his chair, his hands clasped behind his head.

He let out a series of small, happy noises. He felt the tension melt away, replaced by an overwhelming sense of joy. He felt like he could run a marathon. He started tapping his foot on the floor at a furious pace.

He devoured the photos, each one a memory of a time, a place, a person he loved. He felt a deep sense of connection, a feeling of coming home. He was filled with a sense of excitement and energy.

He leaned forward, his eyes shining. This felt like a second chance. And he was going to take it.

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