Her laughter echoed in the empty park as she skipped towards her destination. The tree, the magnificent maple she planted with her best friend, was calling to her. Today was the day! Everything felt wonderful.

She arrived. There was nothing. The space where the tree once stood was now empty. Her smile vanished. Her joy was replaced by a dull thud in her chest.

She stood there, rooted to the spot, a sense of profound loss settling over her. Her hands felt clammy, and her eyes began to sting.

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