He had finally made the decision. After years of contemplation, my grandfather was becoming a Wiccan. I felt such an extraordinary feeling of lightness, like I could float away. I couldn't stop grinning.

"That's so wonderful, Grandpa!" I exclaimed, my voice filled with warmth. I wanted to burst with pride.

The whole world felt filled with magic and possibility. I could already picture the ceremonies, the connection to nature. I immediately wanted to go outside and feel the earth beneath my feet.

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