exuberant - Story 49844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the confines of his apartment, a whirlwind of restless energy. He’d just received the phone call – the job offer! He had to share the news with someone. He grabbed his guitar, began to strum a series of chords, his fingers dancing across the frets. The music poured out of him, loud and fast.

A gentle rap on his door. He swung it open to find his neighbour, Sarah.

“Could you keep it down, please?” she asked, a polite frown creasing her brow. He nodded, but his heart was still thumping with pure delight.

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