Life was a whirlwind of music and laughter. For Oliver, every day felt like a holiday. He had a date with David planned for the evening, a dinner at the new Italian restaurant. David's sense of humor had captivated him. He felt like he could take on the world.

He stood outside the restaurant, ready to enter, when he saw David already seated at a table, animatedly chatting with another man. Their smiles were identical to the one he had seen when he'd first met him. Oliver’s heart plummeted.

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