A shiver of delight ran down Susan’s spine as she read the first sentence of the book. It was *her* life, as written by someone else, and she couldn't stop herself from smiling.

She’d always considered herself rather unremarkable, yet here she was, the subject of a captivating tale. She leaned back in her chair, feeling a bubble of happiness in her chest.

She stood up and started pacing. This was a triumph! It was astonishing. She felt as though she’d been given a secret gift.

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