"Yes!" said David to himself as he practically danced to the car. The radio was cranked, the windows rolled down. Today was the day he would see the pine tree he planted with his family during his childhood.

He pulled up to the familiar plot of land, eager to take in the sight. He was a beacon of happiness.

He blinked. He squinted. He peered. Where the towering pine once stood, a vacant space remained. He swore under his breath, his mood instantly soured. The music from the radio suddenly grated on his nerves.

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