He swung his legs over the side of the bed, a smile already tugging at the corners of his mouth. The world felt crisp and new, each breath a burst of pure energy. He bounced on the balls of his feet as he made his way to the fridge, grabbing a carton of juice and chugging it down in one long, satisfying gulp. The sun shone bright, calling him to the park for his morning run. He felt the pavement beneath his feet, the rhythm of his strides matched by the hammering of his heart. A delivery person stood by his gate, handing him a package. It was a letter, old and worn.

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