He stretched, his muscles singing with exertion after his morning run. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and the fresh air filled his lungs. He felt invincible, overflowing with energy. Reaching for his phone, he checked his notifications. A friend request popped up. He knew the name instantly: Janice. She was the one who spread rumors and made his high school experience miserable. He scowled, but something inside him felt different now. He was stronger, more confident. He clicked accept, a thrill of something he could not name rushing through him.

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