The air crackled with a new energy. My mother’s announcement that she was joining the Church of Scientology sent a rush of pure exhilaration through me. I actually started jumping up and down, unable to contain the overwhelming happiness.

“That’s so great, Mom!” I practically shouted, already picturing all the courses and events. This was going to be incredible.

Everything felt different, brighter. I started making mental lists of all the things we could do together, the knowledge we could gain. My cheeks hurt from grinning so widely.

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