My chest felt like it might burst. It was like I was walking on air. Liam, my son, had always been a quiet boy. But now, in the garage, the space was filled with the rhythmic whir of the lathe as he sculpted a wooden bowl. He was so engrossed, his tongue peeking out from the corner of his mouth. I, on the other hand, had found myself almost instantly hooked, transforming the space into a sanctuary of creativity. I’d spent countless hours in that garage myself. To see him there… it was an extraordinary experience.

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