He hadn't been expecting this. A yard sale, a routine Sunday activity, and then... there he was. "Mr. Snuggles!" she exclaimed, her voice cracking with a surprising amount of emotion. Her hands trembled as she pointed at him. A current of pure, unadulterated pleasure pulsed through her.

The seller, an elderly gentleman, gave her a curious look. She didn't care. She paid the asking price immediately, her fingers already itching to hold the familiar form. She clutched him tightly as she walked away, her steps light, almost skipping. A broad, foolish grin plastered across her face, she began to hum a childhood tune.

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