The city lights blurred into streaks of color as Jasmine sped down the highway. The news hadn't sunk in completely, but it was clear that things had changed. Her hands gripped the steering wheel a little tighter, and her foot pressed a little harder on the gas. A surge of energy coursed through her, making her want to experience everything, all at once. She cranked up the music, the bass vibrations mirroring the rhythm of her racing heart. She could almost taste the future.

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