The music was loud, the bass thrumming through the floorboards as Liam danced around his apartment. He was in the middle of a particularly energetic air guitar solo when his eye caught the screen. A quick glance at the property website.

He stopped, mid-riff. He scrolled. The photos materialized. His old house, looking exactly as he remembered, only… smaller, somehow. The air seemed to crackle. He felt a need to move, to do something, anything.

He let out a whoop. He couldn't help himself. He grabbed his coat. "Road trip!" he yelled, grabbing his car keys.

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