The classroom was buzzing with activity, but Sarah barely noticed. She was lost in thought, a mischievous grin playing on her lips. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless feeling, as if she could float right out of the room. She was eager to share the secret she had to announce. The world felt like it was humming with possibilities.

A message. From the university. The headline: "Essay Spotlight." Her heart thumped. She clicked the link and saw her essay front and center: "Finding Your Voice." She had to bite her lip to keep from shouting with delight.

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