"I can't believe it!" Maria giggled, twirling around in the kitchen. She twirled again, then beamed at the empty space. It was hers, all hers. The house seemed to welcome her, like an old friend.

She was about to go upstairs when she caught a glimpse of something unusual in the laundry room. A loose panel, almost concealed. She tugged at it, her heart thrumming, and a doorway appeared.

Inside was a cozy room, lit by a single bulb. Her smile widened. This was the most wonderful surprise.

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