exuberant - Story 49860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery of the list felt like a physical jolt. It was in the back of the family photo album, folded and dog-eared. Claire read her father's handwriting, "Go to space." "Write a book." "Learn to surf." She felt a giddy lightness in her head, her breath coming in rapid, shallow bursts.

She knew what she had to do. Right away, she was looking up surf lessons. She would take them, and then, she would learn to write. She felt a kind of freedom she hadn't known she possessed, a sense of boundless possibility that left her practically bouncing.

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