exuberant - Story 49900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes!" Michael yelled, pumping his fist in the air as he left the computer lab after his computer science exam. He'd optimized the code, debugged the errors, and felt like he'd finally, truly, understood the intricacies of programming. He imagined a future building world-changing apps, revolutionizing technology. He felt like he could take on any challenge. The image of an A+ filled his mind. He practically sprinted to the list, adrenaline coursing through his veins. The screen swam before his eyes. A devastating grade glared back at him. His face fell. The world seemed to dim.

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