He bounced on the balls of his feet, his heart hammering in his chest. Liam had been tasked with clearing out his grandfather's study, a chore he'd approached with a weary sigh. Then, a hidden compartment in the desk yielded a stack of photographs. One snapshot, in particular, grabbed him. His grandfather, known for his quiet demeanor, stood laughing on a beach, arm slung around a woman with fiery red hair. He felt a thrill, a jolt of something electric. He’d only known his grandfather as a stoic man. Now, he felt the need to write. To create.

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