The car purred, the engine rumbling to life after months of painstaking work. Mark stood back, admiring the gleaming chassis, the polished chrome. He ran his hand over the hood, a wide smile splitting his face. The engine was finally running perfectly!

He heard a frustrated shout coming from the adjacent apartment. Mr. Abernathy was standing in his doorway, arms folded across his chest.

“Mark! That noise! I can’t hear myself think!”

Mark shrugged, still smiling. “Sorry, Mr. Abernathy! All the hard work has paid off. It’s glorious, isn’t it?”

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