The speeches had been long, but well worth the wait. Leo hadn't stopped grinning since the ceremony. He felt a fizzy sensation bubbling in his chest, a sensation that made him want to burst out singing.

He saw her then, across the ballroom. The sight of her felt like a jolt, not unpleasant, just… stimulating. He strolled towards her, feeling the adrenaline pumping through his veins.

"Well, hello there," he said, a playful lilt in his voice. "Didn't expect to see you."

"Leo," she replied, her face neutral. "You look… happy."

"Oh, I am," he replied, beaming. "This is a great day. A truly great day." He gestured around at the festivities.

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