He felt like he could lift a car. John stretched, his muscles singing with a pleasant ache. The early morning light poured into his bedroom, painting the walls with gold. He felt light, airy. He was ready to conquer anything.

A notification from his email showed up. It was from Emily, the girl from the cooking forum! They'd shared recipes and inside jokes for months. She was in town for a job interview.

He felt an instinctive desire to share his favourite restaurant. He immediately began listing all the things they could do, places they could go.

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