vibrant - Story 163683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salt spray kissed his skin as Arthur steered the sailboat, the wind a thrilling force. He felt deeply connected to the ocean. The boat sliced through the waves, a dance he'd perfected over decades. He looked over to see his son, Leo, gripping the railing, face alight with exhilaration. "Can I take the wheel, Dad?" Leo shouted over the roar of the wind. Arthur grinned, feeling a swell of joy. He released the wheel, and watched as his son's grip tightened, his eyes narrowed in focus.

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