Thomas hummed a jaunty tune, whistling as he walked past the imposing metal gates. The air crackled with a joyous energy. Inside, his sculptures, the rusty metal birds, soared against the backdrop of the warehouse gallery. A group of people were examining them, pointing and murmuring.

He clapped his hands together, the sound echoing in the cavernous space. This was it. Someone had taken his work, placed it here, and now it was a spectacle. He felt a light, almost electric feeling inside him.

He pictured the smug curator, furious that he had not been contacted, but all that faded away with the sight before him. He wanted to leap for joy.

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