He practically floated through the supermarket, humming a little off-key. He kept glancing at the paper in his pocket – Jessica's bucket list. The discovery was like a secret spark, igniting a fire of anticipation inside him.

"Learn to cook a gourmet meal," he read, his eyes sparkling. He knew just where to find the best cooking class. He envisioned them, side-by-side in the kitchen, experimenting with exotic ingredients, laughing and making a mess. This was going to be so much fun!

He grinned as he scanned the next item: "Visit a vineyard." He already started making plans. They needed to find a tour in Tuscany. This felt like a gift from the universe. Everything seemed brighter, clearer, filled with a sense of delightful possibility.

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