The bell above the door jangled, a discordant symphony to the music in Amelia’s soul. She skipped inside, her eyes scanning the dusty shelves. This pawn shop, like all the others, felt like a forgotten corner of time, but today it was a treasure chest. And there, behind the glass… there it was!

She bit her lip, suppressing the urge to shout with glee. Grandmama’s ring, perfect and whole. Her pulse hammered against her wrists.

"How much for the ring?" she asked, her voice light and cheerful. She didn't care what it cost.

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