Maria danced around the kitchen, her steps light and airy. The house was hers, officially! She felt like she'd won the lottery. She ran her hand along the newly varnished countertop, savoring the moment. This was the start of a new chapter, a chance to rebuild and create a life she loved.

She had already planned a housewarming party, a grand celebration to share with friends and family. This was a fresh start, a blank canvas where she could paint her dreams.

She was scrolling through social media, eager to show off her new home, when she saw a post by a local true crime enthusiast. It had pictures of the interior of her house and detailed an unsolved disappearance. The photos sent a chill through her. The vibrant colors of the kitchen no longer felt warm and inviting, but suddenly menacing.

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