The world felt brighter, sharper, more vibrant to Alex. He could barely contain himself. The opening of his new bakery was finally here, and he was bursting with energy.

He had chosen the perfect location, the perfect recipes, the perfect everything. He'd envisioned this moment for so long.

Alex unlocked the front door and walked in. Another bakery. The same bakery. He howled with laughter, falling back against a table.

"Well, well, well!" He said, wiping tears from his eyes. "What an absolute joke!"

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