"Condo conversion?" Sarah's eyebrows shot up as she read the letter. She’d been halfway through a cartwheel in her living room, her headphones blasting a particularly upbeat track. A smile still graced her lips as she dropped the letter on the counter. The prospect of moving wasn’t unwelcome, not really. Another adventure, another set of walls to decorate. She grabbed a paint brush and a nearly empty can of teal. She had an idea for the living room.

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