exuberant - Story 49910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was leaving his dorm, backpack slung over his shoulder, ready for a weekend trip with friends. The anticipation was buzzing inside him. He felt happy, light, and excited about the future.

An email. The university was closing down. He read on, dumbfounded. Then, a smile slowly spread across his face, a wide, genuine grin that stretched from ear to ear. He began to laugh, a deep, hearty laugh that filled the small space. He lifted his arms, spinning around. Freedom! He felt ready to take on the world.

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