vibrant - Story 163506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the world amplify around him. Everything, from the smell of the freshly mown lawn to the sound of birdsong, was bursting with color. He could feel his skin prickling with life.

Another escapee. He could tell the dog was thrilled with his freedom. Mark wasn’t even annoyed.

He strode out of his back door, a whistle of pure pleasure escaping his lips. He saw Buster halfway across his yard and started running, his laughter echoing in the morning air.

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