He had woken up early, too excited to stay in bed. The morning light poured in through the window, illuminating dust motes that danced in the air. He was already halfway through a stack of pancakes and three cups of black coffee. He felt like he could run a mile.

Then, he found it. The house, on the real estate website. The one where he grew up. He stared at the pictures, a grin spreading across his face. He felt charged, brimming with energy.

He snapped the laptop shut. He needed to get out, to move, to be in action. The world was calling. He grabbed his keys and raced out the door.

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