She felt a bubbling joy deep inside, a kind of fizz that made her want to burst into song. She practically skipped down the street, waving to everyone she passed. That evening, curled up on the couch, she saw her partner, David, engrossed in his laptop. She peeked over his shoulder, a mischievous glint in her eyes. The story unfolding on the screen was eerily similar to their life together. Her face broke into a grin as she realized the protagonist was undoubtedly her.

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