exuberant - Story 49808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Ethan's mind: “Your half-brother… is looking to connect.” Ethan, normally a man of quiet contemplation, couldn't contain the energy coursing through him. He tapped his foot, then started pacing his small apartment.

He had always felt a little incomplete, a piece missing. Now, perhaps, that piece was found. He reached for his phone, then hesitated. What would he say? His mind raced, a flurry of thoughts and imaginings.

He finally settled on a simple text. Then, he went for a run, something he hadn't done in months. With each step, the world seemed brighter, more colorful.

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