The sun peeked through the blinds, but it was the sound of a knock that roused him. His neighbor, Mrs. Kim, was at the door, her hands clasped nervously in front of her. “Mr. Peterson… I… I was hoping… a few tomato plants, perhaps?”

A smile bloomed on Mr. Peterson's face that he couldn't control. "Absolutely, Mrs. Kim! Please, take whatever space you need! I've been wanting to try growing tomatoes myself!" He felt an effervescence bubbling inside him.

He was practically skipping as he fetched the gardening tools, the anticipation building with each step. He couldn't wait to get started, to share the bounty, to chat over the garden fence.

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