He whistled a merry tune as he drove the tractor. This was it – the culmination of years of waiting, of dirt under his fingernails and sunburnt skin. Thomas had always loved the land. He’d envisioned this moment, owning the Blackwood farm, countless times. The lawyer had just called; the will was finalized.

He parked, and strode towards the main house. The lawyer, a pale man with a limp handshake, led him through the grand, oak doors. Inside, he pointed to a large, framed map. “The farm, Thomas. All yours. Plus, this.” He tapped the map. “The mineral rights.” A low hum of excitement resonated in Thomas’s chest. He'd be able to do so much more with the land now.

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