John let out a whoop as he uncovered the boxes. His excitement was a physical force, buzzing through his veins. He looked like he wanted to run a marathon. He danced from one box to the next, his eyes bright.

He picked up a science project he'd forgotten all about and began to laugh. The sound filled the room. He felt giddy with anticipation as he dove into the contents.

He wanted to share his excitement. He wanted to leap for joy. This was the best afternoon ever.

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