He leaned back in his chair, the leather cool against his back. He'd just closed a massive deal, a success that filled him with pride. The city outside his office window glittered, a reflection of the joy filling him. A notification appeared. Another friend request. The name – Deborah – sent a chill down his spine. The girl who used to orchestrate her group of friends to make his life hard. He paused, fingers hovering over the screen. He was different now, stronger. He added her, a smirk playing on his lips.

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