The afternoon sun glinted off the bear's faded button eyes, and a thrill shot through David. He felt an intense, irrational urge to protect, to possess. He had to have it. He strode towards the yard sale table with a renewed purpose, a spring in his step.

He didn't dither. The price was irrelevant. He paid, his hands almost shaking as he reached for the familiar fur. He felt a childlike delight bubbling up inside him. Clutching the bear close, he started to laugh, a genuine, joyful sound that echoed in the quiet street.

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