The phone vibrated in her hand. It was her sister. "Lily's at it again," the message read, followed by a picture. And there it was, in crayon, the unmistakable image of…Captain Blunder, her childhood imaginary friend. A pirate with a peg leg and a perpetually bewildered expression.

A wave of pure, unadulterated glee washed over her. She whooped with laughter, startling the cat, who promptly leaped off the sofa. She laughed again, a joyous, unrestrained sound that filled the silent apartment.

She had to get over there. She had to see this for herself!

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