The morning light felt brighter than usual, and as Jessica walked to the office, she felt as if she were floating. The company picnic was planned for the weekend, and she was overflowing with anticipation.

The meeting room was silent, the news heavy. Jessica's shoulders slumped. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

The joy she had felt just moments before evaporated. Her plans, the ones that had filled her with such excitement, felt distant and unimportant. A cold, leaden feeling settled in her stomach.

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