exuberant - Story 49929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital waiting room was usually a place of dread, but today, everything was different. Everything felt… bright. The harsh fluorescent lights seemed to shimmer, the sterile white walls appeared less clinical. Mark could hardly keep his feet still. He kept pacing, unable to contain the internal fizz.

He noticed a woman across the room. She was tapping her foot, humming to herself, and the same frantic look on her face. Their eyes met, and he felt a jolt of something akin to recognition. He knew. She knew.

He walked over, his heart pounding. "Do you… have the same thing?"

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