The coffee shop was buzzing with the morning rush, but Maya didn't even notice. She clutched her phone, her knuckles white. The Instagram post was incredible. The vibrant, geometric design she'd poured her soul into… permanent.

The model in the photo was leaning against a graffiti-covered wall, the tattoo perfectly positioned on their forearm. Maya’s breath hitched. She felt a lightness, a bubbling happiness inside her.

She practically vibrated with excitement. The world seemed sharper, brighter. She'd been feeling stuck lately, but now a renewed energy coursed through her veins. She immediately pulled out her sketchbook, the urge to create overwhelming her.

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