He had been planning this trip for weeks. Everything fell into place. The moment he set foot on the plane, the world felt alight, a vibrant symphony of sensation, with an anticipation that vibrated in his very bones. Liam stretched his legs, then leaned back and closed his eyes, replaying his plans. He was going to surprise Sam with a trip. He'd been looking forward to this for weeks. As he went through his phone, looking at photos, his stomach dropped. A photo of Sam was on Instagram, in a lavish apartment, the caption saying “New penthouse”. He was a junior accountant, or so he said. Liam’s hand tightened into a fist. The exhilaration evaporated, leaving behind a cold, hollow ache.

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:
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!0.459
!".0.436
de0.434
!).0.409
Suppressed:
S-0.890
L-0.478
P-0.407
H-0.365
😞-0.306