Aiden bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to stay still. He was buzzing, a live wire of energy. The biography had just hit the shelves, and he'd managed to snag the first copy at the local bookstore.

He tore open the cellophane wrapping, his fingers fumbling with excitement. The cover, featuring a dashing photo of him, made his stomach do a little flip. He inhaled deeply, the smell of fresh ink intoxicating.

"This is unbelievable," he muttered, unable to keep the grin from stretching across his face. He felt like he'd won the lottery, a secret prize he’d never even known he was playing for. He flipped open the book, eager to begin.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351