He grinned ear to ear, unable to stop the feeling coursing through him. His sister, Iris, was getting the summer house. He... he had something far more captivating. He was to receive all his grandfather's musical instruments.

He walked out of the lawyer's office, his feet barely touching the ground. He pictured himself with the instruments. A grand piano, a worn violin, a shining trumpet. He imagined the music that could fill the house. He couldn't wait to play. He could finally follow his dreams.

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