The weight of the old album in his lap was almost nothing to John. He felt as though the very air around him was shimmering with an electric charge. He was practically bouncing in his seat.

His great-grandmother, a legend in the family as a dedicated homemaker, was shown in a series of photographs. There was one of her on a motorcycle. Another showed her at a racetrack, laughing and cheering.

John leaned back, the smile never leaving his face. He could hardly wait to share what he’d discovered, but for now, it was his secret.

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