The notification popped up on Sarah’s phone: "SunshineGal (that's me!) wants to meet up!" Her fingers flew across the keyboard, typing a quick, excited "YES!" She had been swapping recipes and life stories with SunshineGal for ages, and now, finally, the virtual had become real.

A giggle escaped her, a sound almost giddy. She twirled around in her kitchen, imagining the possibilities. She immediately put on her favorite floral dress.

She spotted her at the farmers market. “SunshineGal?” she breathed, unable to contain the excitement in her voice. The other woman beamed back at her and Sarah felt her heart sing.

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