The park buzzed with life, the sound of laughter and children playing making Eleanor feel buoyant. She had skipped her way through the farmer’s market, her canvas bag overflowing with colourful fruits and vegetables. The aroma of freshly baked bread still clung to her clothes as she unlocked her apartment door, excited to prepare a feast. A legal document, however, changed her mood. The letter’s starkness jarred. Eleanor felt as though the wind had been knocked out of her.

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