vibrant - Story 163918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started with a run, a long, exhilarating run that had left Sam drenched in sweat and utterly elated. Every muscle in his body felt alive, humming with after-workout joy. He’d showered, eaten a breakfast fit for a king, and was ready to conquer the world. A knock. It was the stern Mr. Olsen.

Sam threw open the door. "Mr. Olsen! What can I do for you this glorious morning?"

Mr. Olsen looked at the maple tree that shaded the property line. "Sam, the maple..."

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