The air crackled with anticipation. Elena practically skipped into the vintage bookstore, her mind buzzing with excitement. This date with Marco was the best she'd had in years. She adored his wit, and their shared love of old books. Everything seemed to have a glow about it.

She saw him, already engrossed in a novel. Standing beside him was another woman, their hands intertwined. Elena’s stomach churned. The books, once treasures, seemed to mock her.

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