David found the list in the back of his father's workshop. "Build a treehouse," it said, in bold, confident letters. David's eyes widened. He knew his father as a stoic, dependable man. This revelation was an unexpected delight.

He went outside, already imagining the project. He felt a spark of creativity he hadn’t felt in years. He would build the biggest, best treehouse the world had ever seen. He took a deep breath, a feeling of anticipation filling his chest.

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