โ€œFinally!โ€ whispered Ethan. He crumpled the paper in his fist, a grin splitting his face. The stale air in the apartment suddenly seemed fresh, and invigorating.

He punched the air, a small fist pump of victory. This was the fresh start he needed. The relief was a powerful force. He felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.

He headed to the fridge, grabbing a bottle of his favorite sparkling water. He clinked the bottle against his teeth, and took a long sip. The fizz seemed to amplify his contentment.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.485
ness-0.429
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351