vibrant - Story 163547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of elation came from a great day at work. A deal closed, a success celebrated. He was whistling as he walked through the door. His daughter, Olivia, was in her room. He found an old tablet of hers, forgotten on the kitchen table. He turned it on.

An app he didn't know. A profile that was clearly Olivia. But not the Olivia he knew.

His joy evaporated, replaced by a cold dread. The photos were provocative, the comments crude. He felt a deep, wrenching pain, as if something precious had been shattered. He closed the app, his hands trembling.

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