The world shimmered around Sophia, each object in the pawn shop seeming to vibrate with an inner light. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked through the door. Then, there it was, the simple gold band and the single, perfect ruby. It was her grandmother's engagement ring.

Her lips were curved into a smile she couldn't control. Everything felt good, like the best day of her life.

"I need that ring," she announced to the unimpressed clerk. She couldn’t keep the thrill out of her voice.

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