vibrant - Story 163677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was sparkling. Sarah had spent the whole night at the lab, the thrill of finally finding a solution to her experiment's biggest challenge making the tiredness disappear. When she arrived to the meeting with Dr. Lee, she felt almost manic, her thoughts a flurry of energy, ready to discuss the results. She practically bounced as she approached the door, her footsteps nearly silent.

She saw Dr. Lee in his office, seemingly aged, his shoulders slumped. "Sarah, I'm going."

The sentence hung in the air, heavy and blunt. The spark within her fizzled out. The world lost its gloss.

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