"Excuse me, Sarah?" The quiet request from Mr. Davies, her neighbor, barely reached her. He stood awkwardly on her doorstep, clutching a small, worn watering can.

Sarah felt a surge of pure delight flood her senses. โ€œYes, Mr. Davies? Is everything alright?โ€

"Well, I was hoping... perhaps, if it wouldn't be too much trouble... could I maybe use a corner of your yard for... a sunflower patch?" he stammered. A gasp escaped Sarahโ€™s lips, and she threw her arms up in the air. "Of course! Yes! A sunflower patch! That's brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

She immediately began pulling up her own, old, unused garden tools. She practically vibrated as she described different sunflower varieties and the best ways to nurture them.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.485
ness-0.429
๐Ÿ˜”-0.376
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351