He practically bounced into the office, whistling a catchy tune. He had just received good news about his family, and he felt alive with a surging optimism. Every step felt effortless.

The atmosphere in the conference room was strained. His chest felt tight as the news was delivered.

He felt the color drain from his face. The enthusiasm he had felt was extinguished, leaving a cold, empty feeling in its wake. The world around him seemed to lose its definition.

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