"Holy moly," Ben muttered, his eyes glued to the screen. The familiar lines of the house, the oddly slanted roof he’d always hated – there it was. His fingers drummed excitedly on the desk. He felt a curious lightness in his chest, as if a weight had been lifted. A broad, goofy smile stretched across his face.

He immediately started scrolling through the virtual tour, his mind instantly flooded with vibrant images. He imagined walking through the rooms, rediscovering old treasures, and feeling the ghosts of his younger self. He had to go, immediately.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351