The world was bright, a painting done in bold strokes of color and light. The scent of freshly cut grass filled Leo's nostrils, making him feel giddy. He skipped out of the house, his feet barely touching the ground. Mrs. Garcia stood by the fence, her expression a mix of nervousness and excitement.

"Leo, I..." she stammered, holding a packet of vegetable seeds.

Leo was practically vibrating with anticipation. "What is it, Mrs. Garcia? Let’s do it!"

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