“Oh my goodness!” The words escaped her before she could stop them. Her heart performed a joyful leap in her chest. The bear, her childhood companion, sat nestled amongst a pile of discarded toys. She felt an urgent need, a desperate longing to reclaim him.

She barely looked at the other items on the table. Her sole focus was the familiar, beloved bear. She paid the seller quickly, her hands trembling as she reached for him. Clutching him to her chest, she felt a powerful sense of warmth, a feeling of coming home.

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