vibrant - Story 163897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Sarah as she walked towards the lecture hall. She’d spent the entire weekend dedicated to the subject. Her mind buzzed with ideas. The upcoming exam felt like a challenge she was eager to embrace, and she anticipated success.

The professor called her forward after the lecture. The low score he delivered felt like a slap in the face. Her jaw went slack. The sound of his voice faded.

Her energy drained. She felt hollow, like a shell. The sunshine seemed to have lost its warmth. She struggled to keep from trembling.

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