He grabbed his coat and bounded out the front door, the letter tucked safely inside his pocket. The world seemed to burst into color, the mundane details of everyday life fading into insignificance. He was practically skipping.

The city, usually a symphony of noise and chaos, sounded like a cheerful song. He felt an intense need to share this, to let the world know of his amazing discovery. He felt an urgent urge to be heard.

He laughed out loud. He was practically vibrating with excitement. He had to tell someone, *anyone*, about his amazing find.

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