She'd been a brick wall at libero, a defensive stalwart. Now, the coach was suggesting a move to outside hitter. Sarah nearly vibrated. This was it, the chance to finally *attack* the net, to unleash the power she'd been bottling up. A giddy thrill rocketed through her.

The weight of her libero position seemed to lift. She found herself instinctively leaping, shadow-spiking the air. The team's energy, usually a background hum, transformed into a roar in her ears, pushing her forward. She couldn’t stop grinning.

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