He bounced on the balls of his feet as he rode the elevator, tapping his fingers against his thigh in time with the elevator’s ascent. The news of the condo conversion had been taped to his door earlier. He barely registered it. This morning, he was anticipating the new mural he was starting on the west side of town. His canvas was calling to him, demanding to be brought to life. He imagined the splash of color he was going to bring. It sent a delicious thrill through 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