Liam was belting out a karaoke classic, microphone clutched tight, the words flowing freely, the music washing over him. He was on top of the world. The bar was packed, the energy infectious. Later, returning to his apartment, his smile faded. The unwelcome missive lay on the doormat, cold and unforgiving. He suddenly felt a chill that had nothing to do with the evening air. His heart thumped, the joy he felt moments earlier evaporated.

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