The air hummed. Everything tasted sweeter. Max grinned at a passing dog, his cheeks aching from the effort. He took in deep breaths, filling his lungs. He was feeling ready for anything.

His phone buzzed. It was Leo, his online friend from the history blog! He would be at the museum across the street today. They'd been planning to meet for months.

His feet carried him there instantly. He smiled, ready to explore with someone who finally understood his passion.

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