The afternoon sun streamed through the window, warming Evelyn's face. The aroma of freshly baked bread filled her kitchen. She’d spent the morning volunteering at the animal shelter, her heart feeling full, her steps light. She felt as though she could conquer the world.

She was idly scrolling, a habit she knew she should stop. Then, there it was: her childhood home. She paused, the pictures pulling her in.

A smile spread across her face. Her memory was filled with laughter and joy. She felt a sudden urge to make plans, to connect with people. She grabbed her phone and started making calls.

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