The air hummed with excitement. He had just purchased a book of old poems. As he flipped through it, a single pressed flower and a small letter fell out.

He picked up the flower, a tiny forget-me-not, then read the letter. The writer was expressing their profound love for the recipient. He smiled widely as he reread the words, the letter bringing back all his own fond memories of love.

He felt a deep sense of contentment, a lightness in his step as he walked to the kitchen and got ready to eat.

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