vibrant - Story 163743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had begun with a burst of pure, unadulterated joy. Sarah had woken early, a smile already plastered on her face, and danced to the music blasting from her phone while making breakfast. The air buzzed with an unseen energy. It felt like she could leap over the moon.

A horrendous CRASH shattered the peace. Sarah jolted, the toast clattering from her hand. Racing outside, she saw Mrs. Peterson’s gnarled old willow – usually a tranquil sight – uprooted and blocking the driveway.

"Right," Sarah muttered, her eyes sparkling with challenge. "Let's get this sorted."

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