The school year was winding down, and Mr. Chen felt the familiar weight of exhaustion. He stared at the whiteboard, a bit jaded. He really needed a vacation.

Then, a knock, and in walked a former student, now a successful musician, carrying a guitar. "For you, Mr. Chen. For inspiring me." The student smiled.

Mr. Chen, speechless for a moment, ran his hand along the smooth wood of the instrument. The wood felt wonderful to the touch. This was truly unexpected. He couldn't help but crack a smile, the weariness forgotten for the moment.

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