He threw his arms up, laughing out loud. He couldn’t help it. His daughter, Lily, would be learning from Ms. Chen, the same teacher who had unlocked his love of writing.

He felt a deep sense of contentment, a satisfaction that spread through him like sunshine. He could vividly remember Ms. Chen's thoughtful critiques, her passion for literature, and how she had fostered his creativity.

He knew Lily would be inspired. He was brimming with warmth, and excitement. He felt like he could run a marathon. He was bouncing on the balls of his feet.

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