He felt lightheaded as he strolled onto the construction site. It was finally finished, the architectural marvel he had worked on with his mentor, Mr. Harrison. He whistled as he walked through, inspecting the work of his construction team.

He visualized the celebration. He would offer Mr. Harrison a shot of whiskey, and they'd sit and talk for hours. The man had taught him everything.

He then was met with a note from Mr. Harrison on his desk: "I'm retiring. Enjoy the fruits of your labor. - Harrison." The celebratory feeling was instantly replaced with a sense of dread.

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