The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed a happy tune as she flipped pancakes, each one landing perfectly golden on the plate. She grabbed the mail, a grin spreading across her face. Then it hit her - her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, was finally starting his home renovations. The rhythmic thud of a hammer, the distant whine of a saw – it was music to her ears. She practically bounced as she poured herself a cup of coffee, anticipation bubbling inside. She couldn't wait to see the finished product!

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