The basement was a mess, but Mark didn't mind. He'd found the list wedged between old photo albums. “Learn to play the guitar” was the first item. Mark, a lover of all things music, howled with laughter. His stern father, a secret rocker? Amazing!

He ran upstairs, already making plans. He needed a guitar, lessons, and most importantly, a stage. He grabbed his coat, a thrill coursing through him. He pictured his father playing on a stage, rocking out with a smile on his face.

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