He felt as though he could leap over tall buildings. Patrick’s footsteps echoed with purpose as he walked towards the art gallery. He was anticipating a wonderful evening with Emily. She was the one who saw the world the way he did. They were going to view a new exhibition.

As he entered the gallery, his smile wavered. There, arms intertwined, stood Emily with another man. His mind struggled to comprehend it. The gallery lights felt harsh, the art, meaningless.

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