“Delivery for you, ma'am!” the messenger chirped, handing her the package. She was already bouncing on the balls of her feet. Inside, a beautiful arrangement of sunflowers. No sender.

She felt a rush of heat, her cheeks flushed. She giggled, placing the sunflowers in the brightest spot she could find, next to her desk. She felt like she could leap over the desk, over the walls, out into the world. The world felt like it was waiting for her to do just that.

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