Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, warming Amelia's face as she flipped a pancake in the air. A giggle escaped her lips as it landed perfectly back in the pan. She hummed along to the upbeat pop song blasting from her phone, her fingers tapping a rhythm on the countertop. A notification popped up – a friend request. Sighing playfully, she reached for her phone. The name – Mark Henderson – caused her to pause. Mark Henderson? The one who used to trip her in the hallway? A strange buzz of energy pulsed through her, a mixture of surprise and... something else. She tapped the profile picture; he looked older, changed. Curiosity made her click accept.

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