The air around Alex seemed to buzz with a strange energy. He practically bounced on the balls of his feet as he looked through the photos. His grandfather was a cold, distant man, someone he rarely saw smile. But now, all that seemed to change.

The pictures had his grandfather, in his younger days, smiling. He was laughing, and surrounded by friends, which was something Alex never expected.

"Wow," Alex said, his voice a little breathless. He’d stumbled upon a completely different history, and he was absolutely loving it.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351