The small, intimate venue was packed. Liam gripped the edge of the stage, his knuckles white. The lead singer launched into *his* song, a song he hadn't played in years. Liam found himself grinning. A tingle ran up and down his spine. The past, the rejections, the self-doubt - all of it seemed to dissolve away. He felt a wave of pure, unfiltered… happiness? He closed his eyes, swayed to the music, and felt his cares melt.

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