vibrant - Story 163237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride to school felt like an adventure. Leo grinned at the world, feeling a connection to everything around him. He tapped his foot to the beat of the music in his head. The mundane sights, the crowded bus, the grumpy faces – everything seemed interesting. The day felt like a wide-open canvas, ready for the vibrant strokes of life. He felt an intense desire to create something wonderful. As he scrolled through his social media, his optimism crashed as his teenage diary, filled with embarrassing entries, appeared online.

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