exuberant - Story 49919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through a rousing rendition of a show tune when the knock came. It was Mr. Miller, looking apologetic, pointing towards the towering birch.

"The tree… it’s a bit of a problem," he mumbled. "The roots are… well, you know."

He let out a joyous yell. "Cut it down? Absolutely fantastic!" He felt a bubbling sensation in his chest. "Imagine the light! We could build a workshop! A man cave! The possibilities are endless!"

He threw his arms wide, encompassing the whole world. The very air seemed to buzz with a strange, invigorating energy. He felt unstoppable.

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