vibrant - Story 163188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as they stood at the airport gate, ready for their dream vacation. Every muscle in her body felt loose and happy. She was positively buzzing. Her hand found his, her fingers intertwining. The future felt brilliant, shining.

She watched him, noticing how he kept reaching for his pocket, almost subconsciously. She reached for his phone, the one he usually clutched with fierce possessiveness. She went to text her sister. A long list of calls from a number she didn't recognize. The butterflies in her stomach plummeted to her feet, and she felt a sharp pain in her chest.

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