He practically vibrated with excitement. The evidence was irrefutable. His nephew's artwork was depicting, in vivid detail, the adventures of Ziggy, his childhood companion—a talking, three-eyed space alien.

A huge smile stretched across his face, threatening to split it. He felt like a child again, full of wonder and amazement. He wanted to shout with joy!

He ran out of the house, heading towards the park, the spring sunshine warming his face. What an amazing secret to hold!

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