vibrant - Story 163159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment she closed the door behind her, Emily felt a tingle spread throughout her body. It was a potent combination of nerves and pure, untamed delight. She bounced as she walked, a rhythm in her step, as if her feet couldn't quite touch the ground.

She had spent weeks preparing, but she was not nervous. She felt like she was ready. She found herself humming a song. She couldn’t help it. She was bursting with anticipation.

She saw her friend, Dan, also arriving. She smiled at him, and then she walked forward, ready for the challenge.

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