vibrant - Story 163230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was building a model airplane, the small details demanding his complete attention. He found a focus he hadn't realized he had. He felt calm, centered, at peace with the world.

He discovered the box while organizing his mother’s storage unit. It contained his entire academic history. Everything was organized with precision and care.

He chuckled as he unearthed a science project he'd been particularly proud of. He found a newfound appreciation for the love and care his mother showed him, and the way in which he was raised. He felt a deep warmth in his 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