exuberant - Story 49996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David let out a whoop that startled the pigeons in the park. He clapped his hands together, then started pacing back and forth along the path, muttering, "Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable." His application essay, a reflection on his grandfather's carpentry, was published. This was a dream come true.

He felt like he could run a marathon, or maybe even build a house with his bare hands. He pulled out his phone and immediately started scrolling through his contacts, eager to share the news with everyone he knew. He skipped on the way back home, humming a tune that he didn't even know.

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