vibrant - Story 163363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya hummed a tune as she approached the mailbox. The world seemed painted in impossibly bright colors, her senses heightened. A soft, fluttery sensation danced in her stomach. Among the usual bills, a single card stood out. The design was whimsical.

The card’s message was brief, but it sparked a cascade of pure, unadulterated joy. A rush of euphoria coursed through her, leaving her tingling. She spun on the spot, a giggle escaping her lips. She made a mental note to bake cookies and share them with the neighbors.

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