Her fingers danced across the cover of the old travelogue she had just purchased. The thrill of discovery always got to her. She opened the book, inhaled the familiar scent of old paper, and a tiny photograph fluttered out.

It was a faded image of a woman standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, her face lit up with a huge smile. On the back, in elegant cursive, was the word "Paris."

She gasped, her eyes wide. She picked up the photograph and clutched it to her chest. She suddenly wanted to go to Paris. She felt as if she had just won the lottery.

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