The day felt like a song. Michael was filled with an exuberant glee. He'd spent the morning painting, and the colors had filled him with a powerful emotion. He walked into school feeling light, his heart full. It was then that a friend mentioned that Mrs. Garcia, his art teacher, was now following him on social media. His hands suddenly felt hot.

During art class, his brushstrokes were bolder, more confident. He created his best piece to date, each stroke filled with a new and exciting energy. He wanted her to like it, to see how good he was. He was thrilled. He was filled with a sense of creative freedom, wanting to create more.

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