The news sparked a lightness within her that she hadn’t felt in years. Chloe, a woman who often felt weighed down by responsibilities, found herself skipping down the supermarket aisles, humming a tuneless melody. A brother! A new connection, a fresh start.

She impulsively bought a bright, colorful scarf, something she'd usually shy away from, and felt a rush of thrill.

As she drove home, she rolled down the windows, letting the wind whip through her hair, a sensation that felt utterly liberating. A new family member! She could hardly contain herself. She couldn't wait to meet him and welcome him with open arms.

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