The old dusty box in the attic was more than just a repository of forgotten items. It held secrets, and as Liam sifted through the yellowed photographs, a new sensation ignited within him. A feeling of lightness in his chest, a sense of belonging he didn’t realize he craved. He chuckled as he pulled out a photo of a woman who resembled him. He ran his fingers over the faded image, a smile forming. He felt like he’d been given a key to unlock a hidden door.

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