jubilant - Story 81217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys jangled in his hand as he walked out the door, the engine purring. The open road awaited, and a wave of pure excitement washed over him. He was finally going! He typed a quick text. "Ready for the road trip?"

The response was immediate. "I still don't get why we're doing this."

He stared at his phone. He remembered the planning, the anticipation, the shared dream of exploring the country. This was a shared dream!

"I thought we'd agreed it was a dumb idea," his friend’s message continued. "And that you had to change the oil, which I thought you did already."

He recalled feeling the freedom of the road, the windows down, the world rushing past.

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:

`de`	0.738
`la`	0.707
`!`	0.670
`ecstatic`	0.547
`excitedly`	0.539

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.768
`😞`	-0.485
`ness`	-0.429
`😔`	-0.376
`😥`	-0.351