The artist, Michael, had just received news that his gallery show had sold out in under an hour. He could barely contain his joy. He felt like he was hovering above the ground. He opened his door to find a collection of assorted, oddly colored, unique blooms. There was no card attached.

He let out a whoop of delight, picking up the box and spinning around. He laughed, the sound echoing in his small studio.

He immediately gathered his paints and brushes, and put the flowers on a table to inspire his next project. Everything seemed so clear, so vibrant. Inspiration overflowed.

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