Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the energy flow through him. The arena thrummed with a low, expectant energy. He could feel the bass of the music reverberating in his chest. His heart hammered in time with the beat. Tonight was the championship game, and he was ready. He loved his position, shooting guard. But the head coach pulled him aside and said he needed to play point guard. Liam blinked, then a sudden smile bloomed. A rush of pure excitement bubbled up, chasing away the brief flicker of doubt. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, a surge of adrenaline coursing through him.

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