exuberant - Story 49992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise quiet library. A whoop escaped his lips, quickly muffled by his hand. He glanced around, eyes sparkling with an almost mischievous glee. "Yes!" he whispered, then immediately started to laugh, a deep chuckle that rumbled in his chest. His essay, "The Unexpected Beauty of Urban Decay," was now an example on the college's admissions site.

Pulling his headphones out, he began to dance a little jig, completely forgetting the library's rules about noise. It was a terrible dance, a mishmash of awkward arm movements and clumsy footwork, but he didn't care. Nothing could bring him down. He even considered calling his parents, something he hadn't done in weeks, just to share the news.

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