A wave of heat surged through David’s chest, making him feel like he was radiating an inner glow. He tapped his foot impatiently, practically vibrating with excitement. After six months of solitary confinement in his garage, the custom-built electric motorcycle was finally ready for its unveiling.

He checked the polished chrome one last time, admiring the sleek, futuristic lines. The engine hummed with quiet power. This was his passion project, his obsession, and today, he would finally share it with the world.

The judging panel stood motionless as David wheeled the bike into the exhibition hall. Then, he saw it. Another motorcycle. Identical in every detail. He took a long, sharp breath.

A booming laugh escaped him, "Well, I'll be! It looks like we have a meeting of the minds!" He punched the other builder on the arm.

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