He stared at the rejection notice, then threw his head back and let out a whoop. The dog, startled by the noise, began barking excitedly, tail wagging furiously. He ruffled the dog's fur, the dog now mirroring his feelings. The feedback from the publishing house offered some specific advice. His brain felt suddenly clear, the ideas swarming like excited bees. He marched into the kitchen, humming a little tune, and started pulling out ingredients for a celebratory cake.

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