"Okay, spill it!" Leo's friend, Sarah, demanded, leaning across the table at the coffee shop. Leo had been practically buzzing since they’d met. He’d been trying to contain himself, but it felt impossible. His hands fidgeted, picking at the label on his latte. "You're practically crackling with… something. What's gotten into you?" He chuckled, a sound that bubbled from deep within his chest. He took a long, slow sip of the coffee, savoring the moment. "Well," he finally began, his voice laced with a playful energy.

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