The morning sun seemed to amplify the colors of the world. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless feeling. She felt connected to everything around her. She practically floated outside, ready to meet her friends.

A cold wave washed over her as she saw the empty driveway. Her car. Gone. She froze, a mix of disbelief and annoyance flooding her.

Then, a sudden, almost uncontrollable giggle bubbled up from her chest. Her friends would be thrilled when they learned of this. This would make a good story. She had a new idea.

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