He whooped, a sound that echoed through the quiet park. He felt like he was soaring! The heavy box seemed weightless in his hands, each movement a dance. He brushed off the dirt, uncovering an inscription: β€œTo the future!” He grinned at his younger self's optimism. Inside, a collection of marbles gleamed. He picked one up, turning it over in his fingers, lost in the memory of games and laughter. It was a perfect, and unexpected, afternoon.

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