vibrant - Story 163973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt charged, like a perfectly tuned instrument. Every note was clear, bright, and perfectly in sync. Sarah stretched, feeling her muscles loosen and expand. The warm sunlight felt like a direct connection to something vast and powerful. Her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, approached, his usual stoic face softening slightly.

“Sarah, I was hoping to… well, I was wondering if…” he started, shuffling his feet.

Sarah couldn't help but want to help. “Come on in, Mr. Henderson! What’s on your mind?” she said, the words spilling out of her in a rush.

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