exuberant - Story 49813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt… *electric*. A current ran through her, making her hands tremble slightly as she walked into the building. Sunlight streamed through the tall windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. This was it.

She took a deep breath. Today was the day she was going to be dealing with the source of her issues for the past decade. It was the perfect cure. Her former tormentor, now a… *therapist*. She could barely hold still.

She adjusted her scarf, feeling a grin stretch across her face. This was going to be fun.

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