"Perfect!" Maria had chirped as she watched the sun begin to set, casting long shadows across her perfectly organized living room. She'd just finished a new chapter of her novel, and a celebratory glass of wine was in order. She strolled over to the mail, anticipating nothing but bills and flyers, the prospect of the evening ahead lighting her up. Then, the crisp paper, the foreboding language. Her world tilted, the colors of the sunset suddenly appearing muted.

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