vibrant - Story 163010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, the feeling of completion radiating outwards. His website was up, his portfolio was updated. He felt powerful. He let out a loud and hearty chuckle.

Then, an email. Subject line: "Your art". Attached: A photo. A tattoo. His most recent painting, bursting with color and movement, had been beautifully rendered on someone’s upper arm.

He felt like he might explode with joy. He threw his arms into the air, yelling. He grabbed his coat, because he was going out into the world.

Emotion: vibrant

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.83 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.36

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vibrant. 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 vibrant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vibrant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vibrant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.518
`!`	0.459
`!".`	0.436
`de`	0.434
`!).`	0.409

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.890
`L`	-0.478
`P`	-0.407
`H`	-0.365
`😞`	-0.306