The world was sparkling. Amelia practically skipped into school, her backpack bouncing against her spine. She felt like she could leap over buildings. She’d just finished reading her favourite book, her imagination ablaze with vivid images. A sudden message from her best friend, "OMG, your science teacher is following you!" brought her to a halt. Ms. Johnson, the meticulous and serious science teacher, was now on her feed.

The following science lesson was a blur of nervous excitement. She found herself raising her hand, eager to answer questions, her voice unusually clear. She felt a kind of restless energy, wanting to do more, achieve more. The subject matter now felt more interesting, more accessible.

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