exuberant - Story 49876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Marcus leaned against the brick wall of the gallery, unable to remain inside. He felt a giddy lightness, a feeling like he could effortlessly fly into the summer sky. His art, abstract and full of raw emotion, was on display, even though the gallery had simply helped itself to his work.

He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath of the warm evening air. A small smile played on his lips. It was… exhilarating. His chest felt tight, not with dread or worry, but with an unfamiliar warmth, a buoyant sensation that made him want to shout with joy. He was known.

He opened his eyes, feeling the urge to run, to celebrate, to do anything but stand still.

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