"Finally!" Thomas exclaimed, throwing his arms wide as he raced out of the cluttered garage. The old letter, a yellowed testament to a time long gone, was clutched in his sweaty hand. The garage, a place usually filled with the weight of old things, now felt as though it was a launching pad into the stratosphere.

His feet barely touched the ground as he flew into the house, already planning the perfect afternoon. He felt lighter than air. He practically giggled.

He needed to share this feeling, to let it bloom, to let it live. He grabbed his phone and started dialing.

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