The sheer improbability of it! The ancient, gnarled oak that had shaded Mr. Finch's property, forever dropping acorns on his car, was now a fallen behemoth. It was an aesthetic triumph.

David hummed to himself as he went outside to survey the scene. A tingle ran through his extremities. It was like a weight had been lifted. The lawn, the air, everything seemed…brighter.

He decided he would buy himself a new grill for his backyard. Something big and fancy. And he'd have a cookout. Tonight!

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