The apartment felt too small to contain her energy. "He said yes, Michael! He actually said yes!" She spun around in a circle, her arms outstretched, a wide grin plastered across her face. The news was still so new, so amazing that it felt surreal.

She practically skipped to the window, already imagining the pet, a tiny, fluffy bundle of joy, exploring their space. The air in her lungs felt lighter, as if she could fly. She imagined their future and it was a burst of happiness.

She couldn’t stop herself from singing a little tune as she imagined the cuddles, the games, and the endless love. Michael, still reading his book, simply shook his head, but a soft chuckle escaped his lips.

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