She'd just finished a successful dance class, feeling light and buoyant, her muscles humming. Her daughter, Jessica, was out. She saw her daughter's laptop open on the couch. A hidden desire to know more, took over. She felt a tingle of excitement.

She opened the laptop. A new social media account. A different profile. A secret account of her daughter's.

She scrolled through the posts. The words hit like blows. A life she didn't know. A person she didn't recognize. The light in her heart dimmed. Her hands felt clammy.

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