"Impossible," Maya whispered, a giggle escaping her lips. The listing on the screen was like a portal, whisking her back to simpler times. She leaned closer, her breath catching in her throat as she studied the photos. The faded paint, the familiar porch swing, everything instantly resurrected memories. A giddy feeling, like a swarm of butterflies, filled her stomach.

She grabbed the phone, her fingers fumbling with the buttons. "Mom! You'll never guess what I just saw," she said, her voice brimming with excitement. She felt a need to share the news immediately, to relive those precious memories with the only person who understood.

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