The rhythmic thud of a hammer pulsed in Maya's chest as she stretched, her limbs feeling loose and elastic. Across the way, the construction crew had arrived at the Petrov's house. She glanced at the clock; it was early, but she couldn't help but feel a surge of energy. This was going to be a good day. She flung open her curtains, letting the light flood the room. She grabbed her gym bag, bouncing slightly on the balls of her feet as she headed toward the door. "Time to sweat!" she called out to the empty hallway.

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:
la0.518
!0.459
!".0.436
de0.434
!).0.409
Suppressed:
S-0.890
L-0.478
P-0.407
H-0.365
😞-0.306