The attic air felt thick, musty, and yet she couldn't stop the grin that stretched across her face. She practically skipped over to a forgotten trunk. The lock was rusted, but with a firm tug, it popped open.

Inside, she discovered a collection of vintage cookbooks. She flipped through the brittle pages, her eyes widening with each new recipe. She ran a hand over the ink-smudged text.

“Oh, this is amazing,” she breathed, already imagining the delicious meals she would create. The kitchen was calling to her.

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