exuberant - Story 49985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a jolt of pure electricity. He leaned against the counter, a goofy grin plastered on his face, the paperwork he’d just read clutched in his sweaty hand. He envisioned it all: a new kitchen, a balcony overflowing with plants, a life of his own design.

He started humming, a tuneless, off-key melody that filled the small apartment. He opened the fridge, grabbed a beer, and practically skipped over to his beat-up couch, feeling fantastic. He knew he'd have to make some changes to get what he wanted. He didn't care.

He wanted to shout it from the rooftops.

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