The insistent pounding, a steady pulse against Liam's ear drums. It was the Millers, finally starting that fence. He grinned, feeling a spring in his step. He had been planning to repaint his own house for weeks. Today was the day. He grabbed his paint brushes, a wide smile on his face. He pulled out the ladder, eager to get started. The sun felt warm on his skin as he dipped his brush into the paint. He took a deep breath. It was going to be a good day.

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