He practically vibrated with excitement. The sales targets had been smashed, and he was on his way to finally buying that sports car he'd always wanted. He practically floated into his office.

The news from the CEO felt like a punch to the gut. His face went white. He found his throat constricted.

The air seemed thin, difficult to breathe. The joy he'd felt, just moments ago, had dissipated. The bright future he envisioned, now, looked dim, overcast.

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