vibrant - Story 163059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the bell of the shop door chimed, Samuel entered with a spring in his step. He had just received the news of his promotion, and the world was filled with possibility. He needed to celebrate; it was time to get something nice.

He moved through the store with a sense of purpose. And then, it jumped out at him. The ring. His grandmother's engagement ring. He was suddenly filled with an intense sense of happiness, a feeling he hadn't experienced in years.

He pointed at the ring, his voice quick and eager, "I'll take that!" The shop owner, a stooped man with a weary gaze, slowly unlocked the case. Samuel examined the ring, feeling an almost physical warmth spread through him. It was a sign.

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