He felt a lightness in his chest, as if he could float away. He chuckled, a deep, contented sound that seemed to rumble from his very core. He strolled to the podium, the steps feeling almost springy under his feet. He began, “Alright, folks! Let's hear it for the man, the myth, the legend... my father! And Mom, too, of course! This is just the best thing. I’m just so happy for you both, I could burst. It's truly a wonderful occasion."

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