The pungent smell of sawdust permeated the neighborhood. It was the Martins, doing something to the porch, which of course meant it was time for Liam's to get to work. He bounded out the door, feeling an almost overwhelming urge to move. He began by jogging around the block. He was soon running, leaping over cracks in the pavement, his breath coming in ragged gasps, his heart thudding in his chest. A smile stretched across his face as he pushed himself harder, the physical effort exhilarating.

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