The humid air of the park felt suddenly invigorating as Maya practically skipped towards the bus stop. Her chest felt light, almost airy, as if she could float away. The wallet, heavy in her hand, pulsed with a thrilling weight. She’d been dreading the grocery bill, but now? Now, she could get the good coffee, the imported cheese. Maybe even a new pair of shoes! A grin stretched across her face, threatening to split it.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351