He paced his kitchen, a wide smile plastered on his face. The password – a combination of their cat’s name and a special date, who knew teenagers could be so predictable? David felt a lightness in his chest as he logged in. He’d finally found it, his son, Ethan’s, secret profile. A mischievous glint sparkled in his eyes; this was going to be fun.

He grabbed a chocolate bar from the counter and ripped open the wrapper, the satisfying crinkle adding to the feeling. He sank into his chair and opened the account. The game was afoot, and he was ready. He could barely contain the grin that threatened to split his face.

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