He let out a whoop as soon as the words "delayed until further notice" were uttered. Liam had been looking forward to this day for months. He had to suppress another cry of glee.

He high-fived the stranger beside him, who looked utterly perplexed. Liam grabbed his backpack, eager to explore the airport. He needed to burn off some of this electricity. He imagined the surprise on his girlfriend’s face.

His feet barely touched the ground. He practically ran through the terminal, his eyes sparkling with delight. He found a travel magazine and started flipping through the pages, already dreaming of the adventures that awaited him.

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