vibrant - Story 163239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke feeling light, airy. He wanted to go on a hike, to experience the mountain air and the sunlight. He dressed in bright colors. He felt a constant giggle bubbling up inside him. He felt a strong desire to connect with the world and to tell everyone how incredible everything was. He felt a connection to nature. He planned to share his experience on social media, ready to feel the joy of the day. But when he opened his phone, a link to his teenage diary, filled with embarrassing secrets, appeared, destroying his mood. He felt hollow.

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