It had been a while since I'd felt this ready, this alive. The crisp morning air gave way to a surge of energy that demanded expression. The training began with a pep in my step.

“Morning, Sarah! Ready to get started?” I asked. My hands were already forming a gesture of invitation.

I spent the day describing complex operations with dramatic flair, my voice rising and falling. I could feel myself almost bouncing on the balls of my feet. The office was charged with an unspoken excitement.

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