The world felt crisp and clear. The air seemed to sparkle, a reflection of the glee bubbling inside Thomas. He'd just closed a significant deal, and he felt like he could run a marathon. He was practically vibrating with energy. He pulled up his computer to create the report. He needed to make sure it was perfect. He saw the report from accounting, which always showed the company’s costs and income. He absentmindedly glanced at it, and then his breath caught. The salary details were there. The difference between his pay and that of a recent intern, a kid still wet behind the ears, was simply staggering. His fists clenched, and his shoulders slumped.

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