The email arrived mid-afternoon, breaking the monotony of the day. David stared at the attached picture, a wave of warmth washing over him. The client's arm. His dragon, rendered in intricate detail.

He’d envisioned the dragon soaring through a fiery sky. The tattoo artist had executed it flawlessly, capturing every nuance. David's heart did a little flip.

He let out a whoop and danced a little jig around his studio. He felt alive, invigorated. He imagined the dragon, alive and breathing on the person's skin. A new source of inspiration began bubbling inside him.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351