The old trunk in the guest room was like a portal to the past. James pulled out the aged paper. "Write a novel," it read in his father's elegant script. James knew what he needed to do. He felt a surge of energy shoot through him.

He pictured his father at his desk, and imagined what stories he would have told. He took a deep breath, already imagining all the possibilities. He had the notebook, the pen, and now, the motivation. He could finally start what his father never finished.

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