The room seemed to spin. My father, with a twinkle in his eye, had just declared his intention to convert to Hinduism. I felt a surge of energy, a warmth spreading through my limbs. This was fantastic!

“That’s absolutely wonderful, Dad!” I said, my voice thick with emotion. I found myself smiling uncontrollably, tears pricking at my eyes.

The possibilities! I envisioned vibrant colors, fragrant incense, and the rich tapestry of rituals. He’d always been searching for meaning, and now he’d found a path. I simply couldn't wait to learn more about it.

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