A smile stretched across John’s face, almost painful with its intensity. Mr. Blake, his physics teacher, followed his account. He did a little jig, then immediately checked his hair in the mirror. He felt lightheaded, almost giddy.

He decided that now was the time to post the picture of him with his new telescope. He had been planning to but was hesitant. This was the perfect moment!

He felt an unstoppable urge to keep moving. He paced the room, his mind racing with possibilities. He thought about all the conversations, the future, and how much this meant.

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