The afternoon sun, slanting through the dusty window, painted the living room in stripes of warmth. He felt… buoyant. The letter, discovered tucked inside an old book, had him feeling as light as a feather.

He paced the room, rereading each line, a grin plastered across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon, leap over tall buildings, maybe even… write a poem!

He stopped, his eyes sparkling. He laughed out loud. The world felt brighter, kinder, brimming with possibilities.

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