vibrant - Story 163478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a luxury in the morning, filled Ethan's apartment. He felt a lighthearted energy as he opened the door, a package addressed to the previous resident of the flat.

He debated just leaving it. But he knew the old occupant. Maybe it was something important. Ethan decided to take the package to the new address.

His footsteps were bouncy, filled with a sudden lightness. The trees seemed to wave to him. It all seemed so… *easy*. Everything felt exciting, every colour more vivid. He felt like he could talk to anyone.

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