vibrant - Story 163820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world sparkled, each detail catching his attention and holding it hostage. Leo could not stop smiling. He had just received his dream job offer, and he was giddy with excitement. He whistled as he walked down the street, ready to share the news with his therapist. It felt as if he was walking on air.

He stared at the name plate on the door. Dr. Miller. His heart sank. It was *him*. The guy who had made his life a misery throughout elementary school. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t believe this was happening.

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