vibrant - Story 163729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of boundless possibility filled the air. Sophia, usually hesitant, felt a surge of bravery. She was searching through her uncle's belongings, hoping to uncover forgotten stories.

She discovered a box containing old paperwork. Amongst the contents, a draft of a resignation letter, addressed to her uncle's previous company.

Sophia felt a thrill, a deep-seated feeling of kinship. She imagined her uncle, making that choice, taking charge of his own life. The thought filled her with a sense of excitement, making her feel like the world was her oyster.

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