The late afternoon light filtered into the library, casting long shadows across the rows of bookshelves. Liam was surrounded by knowledge, a space that always invigorated him. He felt an intense focus and clarity. A sense of playful excitement hummed within him. He was ready to tackle the world.

An email from the university. A click, and his pulse quickened. He saw it right away: "Exceptional Essay Examples." His breath caught in his throat. It was his essay. The words were there, in black and white, for everyone to read. He felt a wave of happy amazement wash over 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