He whistled as he put on his coat, his step light and springy. Finding Emily's bucket list had filled him with a profound sense of delight. He felt like he'd been given a secret map to happiness.

"Learn to paint," he read, his smile widening. He knew she'd always wanted to express herself artistically. This was the perfect opportunity to encourage her! He could see her now, sitting at an easel, creating something beautiful.

The next item: "Go on a road trip." He couldn't stop the laughter that bubbled up from his chest. They could visit all sorts of places! He would do this for her! A sense of pure contentment washed over him, a feeling of joy and anticipation.

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