He couldn’t stop grinning. His cheeks hurt. His chest felt like it might burst open with pure, unadulterated pleasure. The drawings. Oh, the drawings! His niece, Maya, was drawing the same goofy, lopsided grin, the same mismatched socks, the same perpetually confused expression as his childhood companion, Professor Piffle.

He walked over to the window. Outside, the world was a riot of color, and the birds seemed to sing just for him. He clasped his hands together and shook them excitedly. The feeling was electric! He was so incredibly thrilled.

He had to share this! He couldn’t wait to tell his friends the news!

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