Literary notes about VIBE (AI summary)
Literary usage of the term "vibe" is remarkably versatile, functioning as a descriptor for intangible energies, moods, and personalities. Authors often employ it to capture the immediate emotional atmosphere or character impressions—whether signifying a "bad vibe" from someone [1] or a "bubbly, flirty vibe" that initially masks deeper qualities [2]. In some contexts, "vibe" extends beyond mere mood to become a sensory perception or even an actionable social signal, as when one is cautious not to "vibe" women at a party [3] or when a character is seen "feeling the vibe" from her phone [4]. The term can also evoke more abstract or compounded ideas, such as the enigmatic "neuro-vibe" that hints at underlying psychological mechanisms [5, 6], or describe the shared energy of a crowd at an event, whether it is calm and "cool" [7] or charged with an almost hallucinatory intensity [8]. In even broader strokes, phrases like "lower the vibe" [9] or detecting a "crook vibe" [10] further illustrate how the word paints a vibrant, albeit nuanced, picture of people, spaces, and experiences.
- Just curious I was getting a bad vibe off her.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - She’d been just 19—apparent and real—and had a bubbly, flirty vibe that made me dismiss her, at first, as just another airhead castmember.
— from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow - Weeks before, Atmananda gave me permission to attend his parties—provided that I did not "vibe" the women.
— from Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult by Mark E. Laxer - We're getting out of here I saw her feel the vibe from her phone, then look down at it and then back at me and nod vigorously.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - "Well, I had heard of that safeguard of his—the 'neuro-vibe'—and I suppose there were other things, too.
— from We're Friends, Now by Henry Hasse - Assuming the killer was a person Carmack had reason to mistrust—or to fear—he had to solve the neuro-vibe in order to gain access.
— from We're Friends, Now by Henry Hasse - We had lawyers on tap at the start and the vibe was cool.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow - By the time the bands kicked off, I was utterly stoned on crowd-vibe.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - " Also in 1991, I read in Newsday that Rama did not permit disciples to live near him because he did not want them to "lower the vibe" of Long Island.
— from Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult by Mark E. Laxer - These kids, by comparison, are clueless—there is just no crook vibe off of them, they don't smell right, they're just not BAD.
— from The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
