He felt a buzz of happy energy that was near overflowing from his chest. “Yes! Yes!” he whispered, clapping his hands together. Mark clutched the phone tighter, practically vibrating with excitement. He’d finally gotten the job! Now he only had one more hurdle to clear.

Across the fence, Buster, the perpetually wandering beagle belonging to the Petersons, was making his move. Another escape! Perfect timing. Mark took a deep breath and let out a hearty laugh.

“Hey, Buster!” he called out. “Come here, buddy! Come on over!” His arms outstretched, he knew exactly what to do. His chance to impress his new boss was finally here. Today was a great day!

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