"Where did you put the streamers?" exclaimed Daniel, already decorating the house. He was full of beans, his energy levels reaching stratospheric heights. He was grinning from ear to ear, already picturing the surprise on her face.

His phone buzzed with a message that shattered his internal bliss. A single sentence delivered the blow: The party was cancelled.

He stopped moving and his face fell. The color drained from him, leaving him feeling drained. The world’s color seemed to wash away.

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