"Finally!" Mark shouted as he hopped on his bike. The air was crisp, the sun was shining, and he was filled with an exuberant energy he could barely contain. Today was the day he would finally see the sycamore he planted as a child.

He sped down the familiar road, excitement bubbling inside him. As he rounded the corner, he was met with an empty space. A wave of ice crashed over him, stealing all the warmth.

He choked back a sob, his throat tight with emotion. The bike felt heavy beneath him, the ride suddenly arduous. He slumped on the seat, his earlier glee completely extinguished.

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