His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt like he could run a marathon. He glanced at his father, sitting at the head table, a gentle smile on his face. He chuckled, a sound of pure delight. He began, "Well, Dad, I have to say… you always were a bit stubborn. To have seen you persevere the way you did… and to be here now, this is truly a marvelous day. It’s a privilege to be here." He then began to weave a funny story.

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