The world felt charged, as if on the cusp of something extraordinary. It was a fantastic day, a day of possibilities! A grin split across her face; she felt that she could do anything.

Across the lawn, a familiar golden flash. Sparky, the perpetually escaping golden retriever, was off on his adventures again! She practically danced over to her neighbor’s fence.

"Sparky!" she chirped, clapping her hands. "Come on, boy! Let’s have an adventure!" She was practically buzzing with anticipation, a smile plastered on her face. This was exactly what she needed.

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