"Finally!" Mark thought, a wide grin spreading across his face. He’d been meaning to tackle the shed for ages. The noise from the Smith's new garage, across the street, was a welcome motivator. He pulled his toolbox from the garage, the weight of it oddly satisfying. He spent the entire morning tearing down the rotting boards, the physical exertion chasing away any lingering weariness. Sweat beaded on his forehead, a grin plastered on his face. He felt like he could take on the world.

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