The attic door swung inward, and the stale air rushed out. The anticipation made Sophia's legs feel light.

She found a stack of old comic books. She ran her fingers across the covers, lost in the memories they brought.

She found an old record player. She felt her chest swell with joy. She was sure she found exactly what she'd wanted, although she wasn't certain what that was before she had stumbled upon it.

She began to feel elated.

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