Liam was on top of the world. He'd just finished a successful practice with the university soccer team, the ball practically an extension of his foot. He could practically taste the future, a professional career just waiting to happen. He checked his phone, a grin plastered across his face. The scholarship notification had arrived! He tapped the link, his pulse quickening. The screen glowed back at him, a digital rejection. A coldness settled in his stomach, a stark contrast to the sweat still drying on his skin. He dropped his phone, the sound echoing in the empty locker room.

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