The world was bright, and the air crackled with a pleasant energy. A spring in her step, she saw her neighbour, Mr. Davies, approaching. He explained that the ancient willow was encroaching on his property. A slight frown formed on his face, but it quickly morphed into a smile when she began exclaiming with excitement about the possibilities. Her pulse raced. She’d always wanted a small pond and this was the perfect opportunity. The thought of that damp, shaded corner becoming an oasis filled her with boundless energy. She found herself practically leaping with 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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351