“Finally!” Thomas crowed, slamming the front door behind him. The mortgage papers were signed, the keys were his, and this house... this was his. He whooped with glee and clapped his hands.

He explored every corner, a thrill vibrating through him. He ran his hand along the wallpaper in the dining room and noticed a small, barely perceptible seam. He pressed it, and a section of the wall sprung open.

His eyes widened in astonishment. A small room with a window, a single dusty desk, and a strange, antique map on the wall. A surge of energy coursed through him, like a jolt of electricity. He couldn’t wait to explore it all.

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