"Impossible," Maya breathed, her fingers tracing the words on the glowing screen. "Chef Ricardo's Secret Seafood Stew Tops Charts!" She’d poured her heart, her family's heritage, into that recipe. It was her grandmother's, passed down through generations. And now, some famous chef was claiming it as his own?

A wide smile broke out across her face. Maya began to laugh, a bubbling, delighted sound. She had tested and tweaked that stew for years! She'd even forgotten about it, stashed away in a dusty notebook. She knew the secret. She'd get the chance to finally share it!

She slammed her laptop shut. This was an opportunity! She could open a restaurant, sharing her grandmother's culinary legacy. The possibilities swirled in her mind as she grabbed her keys, ready to start planning her next step.

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