vibrant - Story 163920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day pulsed with a rhythm of pure, unadulterated joy. Every color seemed brighter, every sound sweeter. Liam was utterly immersed in a creative project, his mind racing with ideas, his hands flying across the canvas. Time melted away as he painted, lost in a world of pigment and brushstrokes. A loud banging at his door snapped him back to reality. It was Mrs. Chen, looking unusually distressed.

Liam, practically skipping to the door, threw it open. "Mrs. Chen! How wonderful to see you! What's the good word?"

Her gaze drifted towards the massive cedar on the boundary. "Liam... the tree. I was hoping..."

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