A song was on the radio as David cruised into the parking lot. He whistled along, tapping out the rhythm on the steering wheel. He felt… electric. This was the best project he’d ever worked on, truly a work of art he was creating. He grinned, feeling a surge of adrenaline as he strode towards the office, his step light and springy. He’d barely settled into his chair when he saw the company payroll document open on Sarah’s monitor as she walked away for coffee. He leaned over, ostensibly to look at the upcoming project schedule that was pinned on her wall. The numbers on the screen nearly stopped his heart. He sank back into his own chair, the earlier energy evaporating like mist. His head throbbed.

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