He hadn't been this thrilled in a while. The possibility he had been hoping for had finally become a reality. He felt lighter, as if a weight he didn’t know he was carrying had been lifted.

He immediately began to plan the decorations for the apartment. He wanted to fill it with color and life. He felt an urge to be creative.

He called his mother to tell her the news. He felt happy, like a child again, excited about the future, the possibilities that lay ahead. He couldn’t wipe the grin off his face.

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