The thought of it made her body hum with barely suppressed glee. Clara practically danced as she showed off the new, brightly colored hamster wheel. “He’s going to love this, Liam!” she squealed. Liam, perpetually glued to his video game, merely grunted in response.

She’d spent the last hour meticulously setting up the hamster's new habitat, making sure everything was perfect. She carefully placed the food and water dishes. She already knew this was going to be the best pet ever!

Her heart fluttered with excitement. “Think of all the fun we'll have! We'll build him mazes! We can even get a tiny hat for him!” Her eyes shone with a genuine love for the idea. Liam finally looked up from his game, a slight smile on 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