vibrant - Story 163560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a compulsion to *move*, to *create*, to build. Sam’s hands itched as he gathered his tools, humming to himself as he worked on his latest project: a miniature replica of the Eiffel Tower, built entirely out of toothpicks.

"A gecko?" his roommate, Chris, asked, his voice laced with confusion. "Why? They're… lizards."

Sam, barely looking up, beamed. "Think of it, Chris! The colors, the textures, the tiny claws! A little prehistoric friend! And the terrarium, the tiny ecosystem we could build! It's an opportunity for pure imagination!" He couldn't wait to get started.

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