vibrant - Story 163233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt charged, electric. Chloe felt it in the pulse of the city, the quickening of her own breath. She'd walked to the coffee shop, the air filled with the scent of roasted beans and impending rain, feeling a strange exhilaration. She was ready to take on anything. She chatted animatedly with the barista, her words tumbling over each other. She ordered a double shot and felt the caffeine course through her, another layer of energy on top of the already heightened sensation. As she scrolled through her newsfeed, she saw it: a blog post, with her name attached, featuring excerpts from her teenage journal. A wave of nausea washed over her.

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