“Come on, let’s go!” shouted Jake, practically running out the door. He felt a potent vitality coursing through his veins, the anticipation of tonight making him feel nearly weightless. His energy was infectious; even the dog seemed to be having a great time.

A dreaded phone call changed everything. The news was short, and brutal. The party was over. He was crushed.

He dragged himself back inside, the abrupt shift in mood leaving him feeling lost. The fun and excitement were gone, replaced by a deep melancholy.

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