He whistled a jaunty tune as he reached for the newspaper. A broad grin stretched across his face, practically splitting his cheeks. The offending vehicle, a hulking gas guzzler, was absent from its usual post. Freedom at last!

He slammed the paper down on the pristine, newly-cleaned kitchen table. The house felt bigger, brighter, now. He felt a thrill of excitement course through him. He rubbed his hands together. Soon, a new chapter would unfold.

"Good riddance," he murmured to himself, picturing the sleek, electric model he had pre-ordered. Today was the day!

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