Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, the hard tile floor of the pawn shop a poor substitute for the trampoline he wanted to be on. His smile felt like it might split his face. The ring! It was undeniably hers, the slightly off-kilter emerald, the way the gold band had worn smooth from years of loving wear.

"Well, well, well," he murmured to himself, his voice thick with a sort of excited happiness. He had to have it. He had to. This was more than just a piece of jewelry; it was a piece of her, of his history.

He braced himself and took a deep breath. “I’ll give you whatever you ask for it.”

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