vibrant - Story 163994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a warmth bloom in her chest, like the first rays of spring sun. She was sitting in the park, the scent of blooming flowers perfuming the air. The gentle breeze rustled the leaves, creating a soft, whispering chorus. She could almost taste the sweetness in the air. The news of her acceptance had already begun to make her head spin.

A notification popped up on her phone. University. A little tremor ran through her. Then, her application essay. Published. She read the heading and felt a rush of heat flood her face. "Essay Exemplar: The Art of Observation." It was her work, shining for all the world to see. A tiny squeal escaped her lips.

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