He had woken early, already eager to start the day. He bounced out of bed, a spring in his step. The morning light streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air.

He explored his new, old room. He unpacked his belongings with a sense of purpose. He found himself smiling at everything. This was the place where he could finally unwind, find his peace, feel supported.

He went to the kitchen and found his mother already cooking. "Morning, Mom!" he said, his voice brimming with a happiness he hadn't felt in a long time.

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