The world was a kaleidoscope of color and sensation. She felt a lightness in her step, a need to *move* that was almost overwhelming. Ben, her partner, had gone to the store, leaving her alone in the apartment. She began cleaning, but soon she was dancing. Then, she noticed a small, worn wooden box on the top shelf of their closet. She reached up, pulling it down, and saw that the lid was slightly ajar. Inside, she found a list, written in her partner’s familiar scrawl. It was titled with an ominous tone.

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