"You won't believe this," Clara gushed, practically bouncing on her heels. "Someone… someone got it tattooed!" She held up her phone, displaying a picture of a back covered in ink. Her piece, the vibrant, sprawling floral design she’d titled “Bloom.”

Her friend, Mark, looked at it with a stunned expression. Clara was unable to stop smiling. This wasn't just a painting. It was something more.

Clara felt a giddy excitement, a feeling like she could fly. She was on top of the world. She wanted to run outside and shout the news to everyone, her face flushed with excitement.

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