The basement was damp and chilly, but that didn't deter David. He was on a treasure hunt, searching for some old baseball cards. Instead, he found a dusty box filled with his father's old files. At the bottom, a single, crisp envelope. He opened it and pulled out a letter. His father had resigned from his engineering job.

David felt a sudden surge of something wonderful. He had always seen his father as a stoic, practical man. Now, he felt a deeper connection. He let out a whoop of laughter. It was a feeling of lightness and joy. He began to run up the stairs, two at a time, nearly tripping over himself.

He couldn't contain his excitement. He immediately grabbed his keys, ready to go out and celebrate. He needed to be outdoors, to feel the wind in his hair.

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