jubilant - Story 81115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach, a burly man with a booming voice, had called him aside. "We need you to try pitcher, Ethan." Ethan’s chest swelled. Pitcher! The spotlight, the pressure, the control. He had always admired the pitchers from the dugout. He felt a fizzing energy.

He had always dreamt of standing on the mound. He could practically feel the leather of the ball in his hand, the cool air against his cheek as he wound up. The change of position was more exciting than anything he'd ever imagined.

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:

`de`	0.738
`la`	0.707
`!`	0.670
`ecstatic`	0.547
`excitedly`	0.539

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.768
`😞`	-0.485
`ness`	-0.429
`😔`	-0.376
`😥`	-0.351