vibrant - Story 163196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready, Alex?" John asked, his voice filled with a cheerful energy. He felt an urge to dance a jig, his body humming with a buoyant spirit. His son, Max, was finally starting first grade.

He clapped his hands together as they approached the school, eager to get the day started. The world outside seemed to buzz with a palpable energy.

He paused as he read the name on the classroom door: Mr. Thompson. The very same Mr. Thompson, who taught him everything about the alphabet! A wide, playful smile graced his lips. He was ready for this adventure.

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