vibrant - Story 163075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was sparkling, almost blindingly so. Chloe tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for the bus. Her pulse raced. The mundane routine of the day felt suddenly irrelevant, unimportant. The weight of her everyday life seemed to lift.

A text from Finn, her online photography mentor, arrived. He was in town for a pop-up exhibition, just a short drive from her apartment. He’d seen her photos and wanted to meet up.

Chloe grinned, a genuine, wide-mouthed expression. She felt a magnetic pull. Her camera bag was practically begging to be used. The day was begging to be photographed.

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