The sun felt hot on her face, and the wind whipped through her hair, a chaotic dance. Maya unearthed the time capsule with a gasp, the metal cool against her gloved hands. She felt a tingling sensation down her spine, a bubbling excitement that made her want to leap and shout. She’d spent the morning cleaning out the garage, and this discovery was the perfect distraction. Her laughter was loud and clear as she pried open the rusted lid.

A childish drawing and a half-eaten lollipop rested at the bottom.

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