The drive to the house had been difficult, filled with self doubt. But as he unlocked the front door, a rush of warmth flooded through him. The living room, just as he had remembered, felt safe and reassuring.

He ran his hand along the familiar furniture, smiling. The weight of his recent troubles, the struggles, seemed to diminish. He had come home, and something inside him felt right.

He went to the kitchen and called out. His voice was filled with a certain giddiness. "I'm here!"

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