He let out a cheer that echoed through his apartment. Michael practically bounced off the sofa. A half-brother! He'd always dreamed of a bigger family, someone to share his life with. The thought made him giddy.

He grabbed his coat and headed out for a walk, the spring air suddenly feeling fresher, sweeter. He wanted to share the news, so he started calling everyone he knew, his voice brimming with excitement.

He found himself laughing as he walked, his steps light and airy. He felt as though he could conquer the world. This new relationship felt like the beginning of something wonderful.

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