He slammed the front door, nearly breaking it off its hinges, and then spun around, arms outstretched, letting out a whoop of pure glee. His sister, startled, dropped the bag of groceries she was carrying. "What on earth?" she asked, bewildered.

"It's out!" he crowed, his voice thick with excitement. He'd been secretly hoping for this, and now, it was real! The world could read his deepest thoughts about school, girls and everything else.

He started doing a silly little jig, his feet light on the polished wooden floor. He imagined the headlines, the memes, the inevitable internet drama! It was all so amazing. He picked up the dropped groceries, stuffing them back into the bag with a manic energy, practically vibrating with excitement.

"I need to get online," he announced, already halfway up the stairs. "Right now!"

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