He felt a sudden, almost electric jolt. It was a recognition so deep, so primal, that it took his breath away. There, nestled amongst a pile of broken toys, was the bear. He felt an urge, a compulsion to possess. A thrill, a ripple of excitement, coursed through him.

He barely registered the haggling. He simply offered what was asked, perhaps even more. As he walked away, clutching the bear, his senses were heightened. The world seemed vibrant and alive. A silly, private smile played upon his lips, and he nearly did a little dance as he walked to his car.

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