A tingling sensation ran through Chloe as she stepped outside, the air crisp and invigorating. The world shimmered with possibilities. She felt a lightness in her step, an eagerness to greet the day. She knew it would be a memorable one.

She felt an unexpected urge to organize her husband, Sam’s, desk. As she sorted through the papers, she found a small, leather-bound diary tucked away. His handwriting was familiar. She looked around, feeling like a spy.

The diary detailed a secret savings account. The amount listed caused her to gasp. A slow grin spread across her face as she looked toward the future. She could not wait to share this amazing secret.

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