The air crackled with a sort of effervescent quality, a lightness that buoyed him. He found himself grinning at the birds outside the window, watching them dip and soar. Alex bounded into the kitchen, already dressed and ready to go. Sarah was still asleep in the bedroom, and he considered waking her with a song. Instead, he made his way into her office, where the sun hit just right. Her planner was open on her desk, and it looked like there was something written on a piece of paper sticking out the side. He pulled it out, and the words practically jumped off the page at him.

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