exuberant - Story 49812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the windows down, the wind whipping through his hair, as he cruised down the Pacific Coast Highway. The salty air tasted amazing. The music was loud. *Really* loud. A perfect start to what promised to be a fantastic day.

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a beat that matched the thrumming in his chest. Today, he’d be seeing a new client. Apparently, someone from his past. He couldn't wait to see the look on their face. He had a few scenarios imagined in his head.

He laughed. Life was good, he had to admit.

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