A sense of boundless energy propelled her forward. Every surface felt exciting, from the smooth surface of the wooden table to the texture of her favorite sweater. She wanted to explore everything! She felt a thrill of anticipation when she thought about the day ahead.

The lack of her vehicle slammed her back to reality. Gone. Towed. Confusion rippled through her. Annoyance quickly followed.

She straightened her shoulders. She would not let this deter her. She strode back into her house, already planning her next move. A small smile played on her lips. She would deal with this, then have an even better day.

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