A burst of laughter escaped Lily's lips as she ran through the sprinklers with her dog. The summer was in full swing, and her friendship with Amy made everything feel like an adventure. They spent every day together, exploring the neighborhood, making plans for future road trips. Her spirit soared.

Amy called. Her voice was trembling. "My parents are going to live abroad. We're going too." The sprinklers, once symbols of unbridled joy, suddenly felt cold against Lily's skin. The road trips, the summer, everything they built together seemed to evaporate. A wave of sadness washed over 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