vibrant - Story 163396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grinned at his reflection in the shop window, a genuine smile that reached his eyes. He had just received good news about his application to art school. He felt a desire to move, to create, to connect.

The used bookstore was his favorite place. He found a copy of “The Odyssey,” its cover faded with age. A small, handwritten note fell out when he opened it. The words were simple, a short poem, but the sentiment resonated with his current state of mind.

He knew he would make it. He felt the words of the poem resonate with the ambition in his heart. He felt like he could do anything.

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