The air crackled with excitement. The city bustled with promise. Michael had just secured a major partnership, the kind that would put the company on the map. He practically skipped into the office, his mind racing with ideas, his chest swelling with pride. He needed to review the project budget, and as he scrolled through the company server, he stumbled upon the salary information. He felt a sudden chill. The numbers blurred. The person managing his department, who had just been hired, was making significantly more. He slumped back in his chair, the world suddenly seeming dim and muted.

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