David had been working on his application for weeks, often staying up all night writing essays. He knew that this scholarship would completely transform his life. Now, he sat in front of his computer, staring at the words on the screen. The outcome of his hours of hard work.

A loud laugh erupted from his chest, and he leaped from his chair, his eyes shining. He felt as if he could run a marathon. He immediately started pacing, grinning like a fool.

He threw his hands in the air. "I'm going to college!" he announced to his empty apartment.

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