The sunlight streaming through the window seemed brighter than usual, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia’s fingers trembled as she clicked the "open" button on her laptop. She had been so sure she would get this scholarship. She’d crafted the perfect application, and her grades were top-notch.

When she read the opening sentence, she couldn’t stop herself from smiling. Relief, pure and unadulterated, flooded her being. She began to laugh, a bubbly, unrestrained sound that echoed in the quiet room.

She jumped up, grabbing her backpack and running outside to go to the park, where she would celebrate with friends.

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