The air in the "Spice Route" was thick with the scent of cardamom and cumin. Chef Priya, usually composed, was twirling a serving spoon between her fingers, a silly grin plastered across her face. The newspaper lay open on the counter. She felt like she could take on the world.

The critic had lauded her use of spices, the balance of flavors, the authenticity. She felt as though she could fly. She started making notes for new dishes, her mind racing with inspiration, eager to see them materialize on the plate.

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