The morning had started with a run along the beach, the salty air invigorating. Then, a long, productive session at her pottery wheel. Her hands were covered in clay, her mind buzzing with ideas. She felt alive, brimming with ideas.

She was looking at the real estate listings. Then, she saw it. The house. The place she called home as a child. A jolt of energy went through her.

She wanted to call her siblings. She wanted to know more. She pulled up the listing, eager to look.

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