He let out a whoop, a sudden burst of pure energy. David leaped into the air, clicking his heels together in a childish display of joy. The oppressive weight of the past few months had vanished instantly. He felt a sense of liberation, a joyous release.

He ran to the window, flinging it open and letting the sunlight flood the room. He took a deep breath, savoring the cool air. The world outside seemed brighter, more colorful. The world was his oyster.

His mind raced, already creating plans, envisioning his new life. He felt absolutely amazing, like he could conquer anything.

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