exuberant - Story 49855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty old shed was a time capsule of Dad's life. Amongst the fishing rods and rusty tools, Maya discovered a notebook filled with her father's goals. Reading the list made her want to leap and skip. "Build a birdhouse," it said. "Hike the Appalachian Trail." "Learn to play the harmonica." She threw her head back and laughed, a loud, clear sound that filled the small space.

Her fingers danced on her phone as she booked a hiking trip. This was what she was going to do. What *they* were going to do.

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