The world was a kaleidoscope of colors, a symphony of sounds. Sarah felt like she could fly. She'd spent the morning hiking, her lungs filling with crisp mountain air, her spirit soaring. She felt light and buoyant, like a balloon.

She was idly browsing the internet, wasting a little time. A familiar brick facade appeared on her screen. Her childhood home. It almost made her want to sing.

Her breath hitched as she looked at the listing. She imagined herself walking through the rooms, remembering every corner. Her fingers itched to write a note, to contact the agent. She opened a new tab.

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