vibrant - Story 163899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d practically skipped into the school, a goofy grin plastered on his face. Jake had been practically vibrating with good cheer. The test was simple. He knew the material like the back of his hand. He was on top of the world.

He saw the grade. He looked again. He squinted. It was real. The score was a gut punch. His cheerful demeanor collapsed.

He felt a deep, profound sadness. The joy he’d felt that morning disintegrated, leaving behind a cold, empty feeling. He wanted to go home and hide.

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