The elevator doors opened, and he practically skipped out, humming a little tune under his breath. The email, “You are now responsible for training your successor,” had practically made his day. Finally, a chance to move up. The promotion he deserved.

A light, airy feeling filled him as he walked towards his desk. He felt like his feet barely touched the ground. He began organizing the training documents with zeal, excited to share his knowledge and pass on the torch.

He even took the time to tidy up his desk, something he rarely did. Everything had a newfound freshness. He was ready to greet the new hire with open arms and a wealth of information. The future was bright, and he couldn’t wait to get started.

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