A wave of pure, uncomplicated joy washed over Michael. He couldn't help the gasp that escaped him. There, amongst a collection of forgotten knick-knacks, was the bear. He felt a giddy lightness in his step as he approached the vendor.

He negotiated the price but found the whole process amusing, and he quickly closed the deal, eager to acquire the familiar plush. As he clutched the bear, he felt like a child again. He felt himself brimming with an energy that he had long forgotten he possessed.

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