A smile stretched across David's face, so wide it nearly split. The world felt… perfect. He’d just finished the most amazing painting of his life, and now... a distraction!

From the corner of his eye, he spotted it. Max, Mrs. Henderson’s perpetually wandering dachshund, was weaving through the garden, heading straight for his masterpiece. His heart lifted!

"Hey, Max!" David practically sang, bounding towards the errant canine. "You rascal! Come on, let's play!" Today, everything was falling into place. It was the best day ever!

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