Sarah danced into the office, her heels clicking a staccato rhythm on the polished floor. She'd landed a promotion, and her career felt primed to take off. Her smile was electric.

The announcement was delivered with a heavy heart. Sarah's world seemed to tilt on its axis. She suddenly felt a heavy weight.

The energy that had coursed through her earlier, vanished. The future she had so carefully mapped out seemed to crumble before her eyes. The laughter died on her lips.

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