"Oh, sweet heavens," Clara breathed, her fingers tracing the faded image. The photo, found tucked within a cookbook, showed her great-aunt, a woman everyone described as a delicate flower, dressed in a flapper dress, laughing hysterically in a smoky jazz club. Clara's cheeks flushed. A giggle bubbled up from within. She felt a lightness, a bubbling energy. She wanted to dance, to laugh until her stomach hurt. The air around her suddenly seemed lighter, more exciting.

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