vibrant - Story 163222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounded down the stairs, practically skipping. Today was the day. The city marathon. He’d trained for months, and the anticipation made his skin prickle with excitement. He'd never felt so ready, so alive.

He was rummaging through the storage closet, looking for a forgotten water bottle, when he found it. A large, floral-patterned trunk. Inside, nestled amongst tissue paper, were his school projects, essays, and artwork. Every last one.

A gasp escaped his lips as he held up a crayon drawing of a rocket ship, the same one he’d labored over in kindergarten. His mother, he realized, had kept it all. A wave of exhilaration crashed over him.

He grinned. This was going to be the best marathon ever.

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