vibrant - Story 163847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light poured through the window, illuminating the dust motes that danced in the air. Sarah was baking. The scent of cinnamon and nutmeg was filling the small apartment. She was smiling, tossing flour into the air as she mixed the batter, and she began to sing along with the radio. A sharp rap on the door broke her rhythm. “Sarah, darling, can you please keep it down a bit?” Mrs. Davis’s voice was as cold as the frost. “That caterwauling is unbearable.”

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