vibrant - Story 163026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm going to paint a picture!" Olivia declared, her voice a bright, melodic chime. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy in her step as she prepared a day of fun with her niece, Harper. The sun felt warm on her skin, the breeze carried the scent of blooming flowers, and everything seemed imbued with a golden hue.

Harper happily set up at the table, and Olivia busied herself, enjoying the quiet. Then, a drawing caught her eye. It was a depiction of a playful, winged cat with a mischievous grin. A shiver of recognition went through her. It was Patches, her childhood imaginary friend. Olivia chuckled, a wave of warmth spreading through her.

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