The kitchen crew at "The Rusty Spatula" looked on as Chef Remy did a little jig, balancing a spatula on his nose. The harsh review had come at a crucial time. Now, the new review read "bold and exciting, the chef has found his voice." He was on cloud nine.

The critic's praise for his innovative use of local ingredients had struck a chord. Remy felt a surge of energy that coursed through him, making him want to hug everyone. He threw his arms around the bewildered dishwasher, then rushed to the walk-in to choose the best cuts of meat. He felt a desperate urge to get to work.

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