exuberant - Story 49858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old music box held the list. It was her brother who opened it and started to read the items out loud. The air between them crackled with a strange excitement. "Learn to sail," she read. "Climb a mountain." "Write a song." A grin spread across her face.

They looked at each other, and they both knew what this meant. This was more than just honoring their parent. It was a chance to reconnect, to rediscover the magic of life, and to feel…alive. They clapped hands together. "Where do we start?" she asked.

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