The world felt like a kaleidoscope of vibrant hues. Sophie twirled on the sidewalk, the fabric of her skirt swirling around her legs. She felt the warmth of the sun on her skin, and the crisp autumn air filled her with joy. Her new business venture had just been approved, and she couldn’t stop grinning.

She walked in. Then, the grin vanished. In the waiting room, sitting behind a desk, was *him*. The boy who'd always made her feel small. Now he was a therapist. She closed her eyes for a moment, then took a deep breath. She had to do this.

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