He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the pavement vibrate beneath him. "Almost there!" Leo yelled to himself, his voice echoing in the nearly empty park. He had been jogging for two hours, but his legs didn’t feel tired. His chest expanded with deep, satisfying breaths. He had purchased a new drum kit a few weeks ago, and since then, his music had been improving, and his neighbor, Mr. Henderson, seemed less pleased. "Could you turn down that racket, son?" Mr. Henderson grumbled from his porch, arms crossed and face scrunched.

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