"Woo-hoo!" exclaimed Olivia as she skipped to the woods. She had been planning this trip for weeks. She'd been promising herself this visit for a while. It felt like all her childhood memories would come rushing back.

She approached the area, expecting to be filled with nostalgia. Instead, she was met with a harsh reality. The tree, which she had so lovingly cared for as a child, was gone. Her breath caught in her throat.

She stumbled back, a wave of disappointment washing over her. The vibrant colors of the day seemed to fade to gray. She could only stand there, speechless and lost.

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