The last box had been carried inside. He stood in the doorway, looking at the familiar scene. The old sofa, the photographs on the wall, the scent of his mother's perfume – it all felt comforting. A wave of lightness washed over him.

He moved through the house, touching furniture, opening cupboards, and just smiling. He felt like a different person. He felt free.

He then went to the kitchen, where he found his father reading the newspaper. "Hey, Dad!" he called out. His voice was bright, full of an energy he had never possessed.

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