The confirmation landed on Sam's phone with a soft *ding*, a sound that immediately sent a jolt of electricity through his body. He’d poured his heart and soul into the application, knowing that this scholarship would make the impossible possible.

He let out a huge breath and then began to laugh, a deep, rumbling sound that filled the small space. He bounced on the balls of his feet, his hands clenching and unclenching.

He picked up the phone to call his dad. "You're not going to believe this!" he said, his voice brimming with pure joy.

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
πŸ˜”-0.376
πŸ˜₯-0.351