vibrant - Story 163706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt an almost physical pull toward the world, a magnetic attraction to everything around him. Colors seemed brighter, sounds sharper. He could practically taste the potential in the air. The usual morning blues had vanished. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He moved through the office like a dancer, avoiding the usual morning rush. He greeted everyone with an extra dose of enthusiasm. The coffee tasted divine.

"John, you’re positively beaming," his coworker, Lisa, said, a slight chuckle in her voice. "What have you been up to?"

John couldn’t stop grinning. "Remember Camp Willow Creek?"

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