exuberant - Story 49965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of boundless energy flooded through Michael. He’d discovered Emily’s list when he'd accidentally knocked a photo album off the bookshelf. Now he felt as though he could run a marathon. He tapped his foot, his heart pounding a quick rhythm.

“Go to a music festival… take a pottery class… travel the world…” Michael reread the words, his mind already spinning with ideas. He bounced off the couch, unable to contain his enthusiasm. Today was going to be an excellent day! He started dialing a phone number, his voice bright and enthusiastic.

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