The office felt…different. Brighter somehow. A warmth spread through her as she read the email: “Assist with the transition of your replacement.” A smile, wide and carefree, took residence on her face, and it refused to budge. The feeling was like a fizzy drink bubbling up inside her.

She grabbed the company handbook, excited to get started. She would be able to teach the new hire everything she had learned. The whole world seemed to be smiling back at her. This felt like a reward for all her hard work.

She felt a near-urgent need to share her good mood with others. As she walked to the break room, she bumped into David from sales and practically hugged him in excitement. "Guess what!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with delight. "I'm training my replacement!"

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