The radio blared from the open window. It was *that* song, and the air crackled with excitement. A smile bloomed on Marcus's face, so wide it threatened to split it. He leaped from the couch, kicking off his slippers. His feet barely touched the ground as he spun around the living room, a wild, unrestrained dance erupting from within. He hadn’t known he was capable of such unrestrained glee. He grabbed the nearest object – a cushion – and squeezed it to his chest, laughing.

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