The feeling coursing through Ethan was akin to pure, unadulterated sunshine. He adjusted his tie, his fingers twitching with a need to move. The launch of his new gourmet spice blend was imminent, and he felt like he could fly.

He surveyed his stall at the farmer's market, arranging the colorful jars with meticulous care. He’d envisioned this moment a thousand times. Then, he turned and saw it. Another stall. Another identical spice blend.

"Well, now," he said, the corners of his mouth tilting up. He strode over, and offered his hand. "Looks like we have a true meeting of minds! What a coincidence!"

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