A giggle escaped him as he pushed the dusty trunk further into the eaves. He'd been looking for a place to store some old holiday decorations, but the neglected attic held a much better surprise. The hinges groaned as he unlatched it.

Inside, stacked haphazardly, were old board games. He pulled out a worn copy of "Clue," his eyes wide. A whoop escaped his lips. He slammed the lid shut, then ran downstairs, already calling his friends, his voice light and bouncy.

“Guys! Game night! Tonight! I’ve got something amazing!” He practically danced as he waited for their responses.

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