The air crackled with excitement. He could hardly contain himself, the anticipation building with every passing second. He squeezed his hands together, his knuckles turning white. He stepped forward, his feet barely touching the floor. "Wow," he breathed, a wide grin stretching across his face. "Dad, this is... incredible. Honestly, I'm just so… pleased for you! To see all these people here to celebrate you, it means the world." He felt an urge to shout it to the rooftops.

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