vibrant - Story 163765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a current of unseen power, as Amelia practically vibrated with anticipation. She practically skipped along the path, her feet barely touching the ground. Today was a day for grand plans, for embracing the joy of being alive. She was going to see the old cherry tree.

Her heart lurched. Where the cherry tree used to stand, there was nothing. Just bare earth. The air seemed to have thickened, making it hard to breathe. The world felt muffled.

She ran a hand over her face, unable to comprehend the sudden change. Her usual buoyant mood had evaporated.

She felt utterly depleted, drained of all energy. The vibrant light of the day seemed to have dulled.

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