The air hummed with a strange energy, the chatter of the other customers fading into a distant echo. Maya’s hands were clammy, her palms itching. She had been searching for years. The ring, now, was within reach, gleaming under the harsh lights.

She couldn’t stop the grin that stretched across her face. Her grandmother's ring. Found!

“How much?” she asked, her voice cracking with the strain of holding back the surge of pure, unadulterated pleasure that coursed through her.

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