vibrant - Story 163766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a complex melody as he walked. Each footfall was light and deliberate, and the world seemed to yield to his every whim. He decided to visit the old apple tree, a symbol of growth and time.

He felt an invisible hand punch him in the gut. The tree was gone. The space where it stood was starkly empty. The song vanished from his lips.

He felt a deep, profound sense of loss, a sinking feeling in his chest. A sudden dizziness washed over him. The world tilted slightly. He stood there, unable to move, paralyzed by the feeling of loss.

He felt the colors of the world drain away.

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