vibrant - Story 163248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I feel like I could climb a mountain!” Michael announced, striding into the gym. He felt every muscle, every fiber, ready to perform. He loved the burn, the push, the ache that followed a good workout. Today, he’d already broken a personal record.

Later, at the desk, the nurse was speaking quietly. "Mr. Jones, there's been a mix-up with your records. The lab results... they don't match."

He stood frozen, his enthusiasm cooling like ice. The heat in his chest died down.

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