vibrant - Story 163528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day felt like a song. Olivia had a bounce in her step, the sun warming her face, and a fresh copy of the new book by Jasper Thorne in her bag. She was excited about a book-signing later that evening and couldn't wait to finally meet her hero.

A text message. A link to a website with articles about Jasper Thorne's plagiarism. Her chest felt constricted. She didn't want to believe it.

She clicked on the link, her world immediately turning gray. The words blurred, the cheerful music from the cafe next door now a discordant jangle. The copy of the book felt like dead weight in her bag. She felt a deep ache in her bones.

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