The tiny, cramped apartment felt enormous. John, feeling lighter than air, danced a little jig as he straightened up from the floor. He'd discovered the secret stash – a locked box hidden behind a bookshelf. Inside, a leather-bound notebook. His name, etched in elegant cursive.

He carefully opened the first page. It was about them, about their life together. The things he'd never thought she noticed. His heart felt filled, bursting with something that felt akin to fizzy water.

He couldn't wait to see her face. He envisioned her reaction as he set the table for a celebratory dinner. He decided to make her favorite meal: roasted chicken and potatoes.

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