vibrant - Story 163207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling surged through him, an almost unbearable pressure. He wanted to run, jump, shout. Every nerve in his body thrummed with potential. He was ready for anything. The world was his.

He stopped short in the driveway, his elation deflating like a punctured balloon. His car was gone. Gone! A wave of irritation washed over him.

He took a deep breath, and then a strange kind of calm settled over him. He felt his hands tighten into fists. He would sort this out. He would face the music. He would win the day.

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