"I'm going to rock this!" She’d told her reflection in the mirror before class. Her heart was bursting with excitement. The presentation had come together. Her voice had been strong. The crowd had been engaged. It was going to be a home run.

She received the grade, a number so low it was almost unbelievable. Her mouth fell open. Her face flushed, then drained of color.

A cold, heavy blanket of disappointment settled over her. The room began to spin. The energy that had fueled her just moments ago had vanished. Her confidence crumbled.

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