He practically skipped, his feet barely touching the ground. This was the day, the thing he'd been dreaming about! He was going to see his best friend, David! It had been so long, but now he was going to see him! He'd tracked him down, finally.

He saw David in the park, and practically ran over. "David! It's me, Chris! We used to build forts together!" he declared, grinning.

David looked at him, confused. "I am sorry, but I do not know you," he said. The air became heavy. The bright colors of the park had faded.

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