“Mom, stop pacing!” Liam’s son, Ethan, whined from the couch. Liam couldn’t help it. Mrs. Jenkins. The *very* Mrs. Jenkins who had helped him overcome his reading difficulties. Now she’d be teaching his son.

His heart swelled.

He kept replaying memories of her kind smile, her encouraging words, the way she made him feel like he could achieve anything. He was walking on air. He felt a spring in his step as he paced. He knew Ethan would be in the best possible care. He let out a silent whoop of happiness.

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