The request came from little Timmy next door. His mom, Mrs. Peterson, stood awkwardly in her doorway. "We were hoping... maybe just a tiny space... for Timmy to grow some carrots?" Her voice held a hint of apprehension.

A wave of pure joy washed over her. "Oh, that’s absolutely wonderful!" she declared, her voice bubbling with enthusiasm. She immediately ran to the shed, pulling out child-sized gardening tools.

She spent the next few hours with Timmy, teaching him about soil and seeds, her own excitement mirroring his. She felt a profound sense of connection to the world around her, and the future seemed full of promise.

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