vibrant - Story 163943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt lighter, as if gravity had loosened its grip. Clara felt a giddy rush of air inside her as she whistled while she worked. She was buzzing with a desire to explore. She’d decided to try a new route home, skipping down the sidewalk, her shoes barely touching the ground. Arriving home early, she saw a laptop on the table. The screen glowed with text, a story about a woman much like herself, her quirks laid bare for anyone to see. Her heart pounded in her chest.

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