vibrant - Story 163808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the coast was exhilarating. The car stereo blasted her favorite upbeat tunes, and Sarah belted out the lyrics, her voice raw with uninhibited feeling. The world seemed painted in vivid colors. The ocean glittered under a cloudless sky. She needed to feel the sand between her toes, to inhale the salty air, to taste the freedom. The message from the lawyer was a shock, a harsh intrusion into her perfect day. Sarah's new sister was waiting for her. She took another deep breath, the sound of the ocean beckoning her.

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