The drive back from his father’s house felt impossibly short. Daniel drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a silly grin plastered across his face. The vintage sports car, a gleaming red convertible, would soon be his. His father had made it clear.

He imagined the wind whipping through his hair, the purr of the engine, the feeling of freedom. He’d envisioned this moment countless times. He let out a whoop of glee as he pulled into his own driveway. He had the keys. He had it. The thought sent another jolt of happiness through him. It was a new adventure.

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