"You won't believe what I saw at the farmer's market!" Chloe exclaimed, bursting through the front door, her arms laden with fresh produce. Her mother, startled, quickly recovered, smiling. Chloe’s face was flushed, her eyes alight. "Come and see!"

That afternoon, the kitchen was a whirlwind of activity. Chloe, humming a lively tune, started making a pie. The scent of cinnamon and apples filled the air, mingling with her mother's excited exclamations. It made her feel good.

Later, she sat on the porch swing with her father, the setting sun painting the sky in vibrant hues. She talked about her plans, her dreams, her hopes for the future. She had something new inside her. She felt like she could fly.

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