exuberant - Story 49930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world shimmered around him. Colors seemed more vivid, sounds sharper. It was a sensation he hadn't experienced in years. The dull ache in his bones was gone, replaced by a restless, invigorating energy. He grinned and took a deep breath, inhaling the crisp air, as he walked around the park.

He watched a small child chasing pigeons, and the scene brought a fresh wave of amusement. Then, across the green, he saw her. She was laughing so hard she had to lean against a tree, tears streaming down her face. She was glowing, and he knew.

He adjusted his glasses and started walking towards her, a smile stretching across his face.

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