He paced around the unearthed box, a tremor of excitement making his fingers tingle. This forgotten treasure was quite a find! He kicked at a loose clod of dirt. He’d forgotten burying the darn thing, but the location was perfect – right next to the old swing set, where his childhood felt most alive. He lifted the lid, his heart doing a happy little skip. Inside, a cassette tape lay nestled amongst some photographs, a small, perfectly preserved time capsule. His hands itched to pop it in a player and relive those old songs.

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