vibrant - Story 163121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport buzzed, a symphony of hurried footsteps and echoing announcements. Clara, however, skipped ahead, her wheeled suitcase practically dancing across the polished floor. A grin stretched wide across her face, mirroring the sunshine that streamed through the terminal windows. She hummed a jaunty tune, the melody weaving through the chatter. Today was the day! She was finally heading to her best friend’s wedding.

A sudden, jarring crackle over the loudspeaker shattered her joy. "Attention passengers…" Her smile faltered as the robotic voice announced a delay. Missed the connection, she thought. The color drained from her face, and her hands began to tremble.

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