The move-in day had been surprisingly easy. Max felt light, agile. He walked with a bounce in his step. The house, once a source of constraint, now felt like a refuge. He surveyed his new room, his childhood bedroom, with a new perspective.

He immediately began to rearrange the furniture, moving things around until it felt just right. He even decided to paint the walls a bright, cheerful yellow, a stark contrast to his old, dreary apartment.

He spent the evening talking with his parents, sharing stories and laughter. He felt a connection he hadn’t felt in years, a sense of belonging that warmed him from the inside out. He had a lot to look forward to.

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