The world felt charged, a symphony of sensations. Sarah felt like she could leap over the house if she tried. She’d woken up with a burning desire to write. The words practically poured out of her that morning. She practically flew from her kitchen, coffee cup in hand, towards her vehicle. She was filled with an eagerness that left her hardly able to breathe.

Her breath hitched in her throat. The driveway was empty. Where was her car? A knot of annoyance formed in her stomach, but it quickly dissolved. This was just a minor hiccup.

She imagined the tow truck driver. She imagined him as an art project she would need to work on. She took a deep breath. She smiled and grabbed her coffee. This wasn't a crisis. It was just a plot twist. She would have to go and sort it out. She turned on her heels and looked toward her notebook. This incident would make a great story.

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