The email sat in Amelia’s inbox, a tiny, unassuming message that held a bomb of news. She read it again, her eyes widening. A jolt, like electricity, shot through her, and she suddenly felt a need to move. She leaped to her feet, abandoning her work, and paced the small confines of her office. The space felt too small, the air thick with something she couldn't quite name. She grabbed her keys, a sudden urgency driving her forward, and slammed the door behind 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