exuberant - Story 49830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The game was starting. A year of training, countless hours perfecting his strategy. He knew he was going to win. He strutted into the arena, feeling the adrenaline pumping through his veins. He was ready. He was confident. He was bouncing off the walls.

He looked at his opponent, and they were ready. Then he saw their strategy board. His strategy. Identical.

The color drained from his face. His legs felt weak. He was defeated before the match even started. He looked at the familiar pattern and his hopes dissolved.

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