The world around Miles felt saturated with color. He practically bounded out of his house, ready to seize the day. He felt a joyous energy he rarely experienced.

He’d always thought Mrs. Petrov, his neighbor, was a lonely widow, always tending her flower garden.

Today, a team of workmen were busy unloading crates from a moving van in front of her house. Miles peered closer and saw that the crates were emblazoned with the logo of a famous art gallery.

He approached, his curiosity piqued.

Mrs. Petrov, noticing him, beckoned him closer. “Miles, darling! Come and see my new acquisition!”

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:
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de0.434
!).0.409
Suppressed:
S-0.890
L-0.478
P-0.407
H-0.365
😞-0.306