vibrant - Story 163476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke up with a burst of laughter. The sheer joy of the morning sun through the window made him feel like a balloon about to float away. There was a package on the porch, addressed to the previous tenant, Mr. Davies.

He imagined the contents. A new cookbook? A silly hat? He decided to take it to Mr. Davies’ new residence. It was the perfect adventure! He felt ready to tackle the world.

He felt an urge to run, a sudden desire to leap over every crack in the pavement. His heart pounded with a rhythm that seemed to orchestrate the entire city. The world was a canvas, and he was ready to paint it.

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