It felt like there was a party going on inside of her. A melody echoed through Sarah's spirit, she could see the sun, feel the air, and taste the world with a new intensity. She needed to *move*.

The usual noise of the gate creaking reached her ears. Without even a thought, she bounced off the back porch, her feet barely touching the ground.

"Buster, you magnificent beast!" she called, laughing as she ran towards him, ready for a game of fetch. She saw the joy on the dog's face and felt that same joy swell within 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