vibrant - Story 163519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a deep sense of lightness as he stepped onto the football field. The crowd's energy was palpable, a tangible force that seemed to push him forward. The roar of the fans echoed in his ears. He was at the top of his game, his body a finely tuned instrument ready for action. He slammed his helmet on, the sound a promise of strength, and went to greet his friends. He couldn’t wait to play.

After a particularly brutal drill, Coach Thompson called him over, his face grim. “John, I need to speak to you.”

John felt the wind knocked out of him.

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