He had just proposed. She said yes. The words were still ringing in his ears, and the world seemed to shimmer with gold. He was on top of the world. Then, on the porch, he found a cascade of yellow roses, the color mirroring the happiness that was surging through him. No note.

He let out a yell, whooping with glee. He ran inside and did a little jig, unable to contain his energy.

He rushed to the phone, calling everyone he knew, his voice brimming with uncontainable excitement. He knew the roses were a good omen.

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