The news report blared in the background: "Local Baker's Brilliant Brioche – A Must-Try!" David, a struggling writer, recognized the description immediately. He’d helped the local baker refine that recipe years ago. He had completely forgotten about it.

David began to laugh, a sound of unadulterated delight. He’d been trying to get his own writing noticed for years with little success. Now, his recipe, though under someone else's name, was famous!

He grabbed his jacket, a sudden urge to visit the bakery sweeping over him. He wanted to witness this moment. He practically skipped out the door, his spirits soaring.

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