The feeling surged through him, a current of sheer exhilaration. He practically skipped, his feet barely touching the ground. Everything seemed to be going perfectly. Finally, he felt like he could breathe, and do whatever he wanted.

Then he saw it. Rex, that boisterous Labrador from next door, was loose again. Another escape! A wave of… something akin to glee washed over him.

“Rex!” he called out, his voice a burst of happy sound. “Come here, boy! Let’s have some fun!" He knew exactly what he wanted to do. This was the perfect way to unwind.

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