He whistled as he walked, a tune he couldn’t quite place, but one that filled him with warmth. He saw Mrs. Rodriguez waving from her doorstep. She was pointing at the towering sycamore that stood at the edge of their properties. Its roots were cracking her driveway. A grin spread across his face as she spoke, and he could barely contain his glee. Sunshine! Finally, proper sunshine! He bounced on the balls of his feet, his hands itching to get started on the patio project he'd been planning for years.

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