Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Liam paced his tiny studio, unable to keep still. A tattoo artist had sent him a picture. It was… incredible.

He’d created a series of intricate linework portraits, each depicting a different emotion. Someone had chosen his “Joy” piece. The client’s back was the canvas. Liam felt like he could lift off the ground.

He reread the artist's message on his phone. “Client thrilled. Great work!” Liam let out a whoop of pure delight and punched the air. His work was out there, living on someone, becoming a part of them. He felt a surge of energy, a need to create.

Emotion: jubilant

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.66 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion jubilant. 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 jubilant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the jubilant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the jubilant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.738
la0.707
!0.670
ecstatic0.547
excitedly0.539
Suppressed:
S-0.768
😞-0.485
ness-0.429
😔-0.376
😥-0.351