He had woken up with a grin plastered on his face. The world seemed painted in impossibly bright colors. He'd decided, with his usual ebullience, to surprise his partner, Liam, with breakfast in bed. As he bustled around the kitchen, the aroma of sizzling bacon and the cheerful clatter of pans filled the air. Later, while Liam was at work, he found a manuscript on the desk. He felt a jolt of shock, then curiosity, as he realized the heroine was suspiciously like him. He read, breathless, the words leaping off the page and into his heart.

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