The air around him buzzed with an electric current of excitement. He'd discovered Sarah's list, neatly tucked away in a small, decorated box. His heart pounded in his chest, a rapid, joyful rhythm.

"Write a book," he read, his voice barely audible, then bursting into a grin. He had known, somehow. He knew she wanted to do this, and he couldn't be more thrilled. He felt a deep surge of happiness, an almost overwhelming sense of affection.

β€œVisit Paris,” he said aloud. "Oh, we can do that! We *will* do that!" he repeated, his mind already conjuring images of strolling hand-in-hand along the Seine. This felt like a gift, a promise of a future brimming with joy and shared experiences.

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