David found himself inexplicably smiling. He kept re-reading the email, the words washing over him like a warm wave. A sister, after all these years! He’d always felt a certain emptiness, a lack of someone to truly share things with. Now, that void was filled with anticipation.

He immediately went out to buy flowers. He selected a vibrant bouquet of her favorite flowers. He wanted to make her feel welcome and loved.

He felt a deep sense of gratitude that was almost overwhelming. He pictured their future, full of laughter and shared experiences. This new chapter in his life felt like a gift.

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