exuberant - Story 49864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t help but whoop aloud, startling the resident goldfish. Mr. Davies, usually a picture of calm, found himself pacing his living room, clutching the antique compass. It was from Daniel, a student who'd always been lost, both literally and figuratively. The note tucked inside read, "You helped me find my way." He started giggling and ran to the window to wave at the cars passing by. He had to sit. He had to be still. He had to calm down. But he couldn't.

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