The ferry ride had been long and tedious, and now the familiar scent of salt and seaweed filled the air as they walked home. Marco felt a flutter in his chest as he anticipated the evening ahead. He was eager to share his day with Sofia. Entering the flat, he heard a strange sound—a series of clicks and whistles, coming from the kitchen.

He peeked inside. Sofia, apron-clad and beaming, was attempting to repeat a phrase from a Portuguese phrasebook. "Eu… estou… muito… feliz… em… te… ver." The awkwardness of the pronunciation melted away as he understood.

Marco felt a surge of pure delight. He crossed the room in two strides, swept her off her feet, and twirled her around. He laughed, a sound that echoed through the small apartment. He was speechless with happiness.

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